I can't believe I'm looking forward to Mud Season.

The thermometer read minus one

Today, though March has begun

The low temperature

Makes me unsure

That winter will ever be done.

When the temperature drops below zero

Do we dream of warm places to go?

Do the people of Maine

Ever complain?

Our friends in the South need not know.

What happened to the end of the Cold War, to the Peace Dividend and the world without War?

World War I was the war to end war

World War II; “Big deal, what’s one more?”

From Korea to Ukraine

Is a long bloody chain

Of skirmishes, invasions and gore.

Marketing and Self-promotion

My book sales were less than fantastic

So I cut the price something drastic

But sales didn’t rise

I can only surmise

That demand is price inelastic.

Marketing is not my strong suit,

To sell books you just gotta do it.

I will if I must

I hope can just

Inject some humor into it.

Self promotion has little appeal

It has a cloying unsavory feel

It’s in the same class

As the remains of the grass

Once the bull has digested his meal.

Politics

In reference to an article which predicted that Congress might have passed its last significant legislation until after the primaries and the November elections:

Is Congress really done for the year?

Do Congressmen live in such fear

That unpopular stances

Will increase the chances

That an election will end their career?

After reading Charles Blow's 2/22/14 column "Accommodating Divisiveness" in the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/opinion/blow-accommodating-divisiveness.html?

“You’ve never heard me say such a thing.

Nor would I.”  Ted Cruz is saying,

About a racist tirade

That Ted Nugent made.

As repudiation it seems sorely lacking.