“Methane emissions from cattle are 11% higher than estimated.”
—The Guardian
Onward, cows and bullocks, Browsing as of yore
Grass that covers Britain Like a bright green floor.
Once it’s been digested Gas will upwards go,
Boosting global warming Everywhere below.
Some share their smokes with Billy Squier,
Some with Tom Price.
From what I’ve gathered from “The Wire,”
I hold with those who favor Squier.
But if I had a head of lice,
I think I’d walk the interstate,
And search for Dr. Thomas Price,
Who’s not so great,
And not so nice.
José, can you see (no, I guess not, the Wall)
What so proudly we hail by the stadium’s light.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars (they were not meant for all)
Were meant for just us English-speaking and white.
And the terrorists’ glare, their bombs bursting in air
Gave proof that with ISIS, you’d better stay there.
Yes, stay where you are and do us all a fave.
Don’t come to the land of the free and the brave.
Sologamy
Is the trend, I see.
Not She plus He
Nor He plus She
Nor He plus He
Nor She plus She
But Me plus Me
Till death Me do part
And My passionate heart
Stops beating as one,
Thus ending My fun.
Sologamy
Will set us all free.
Get off the shelf—
Marry yourself.
Fight urban growth—
Plight your own troth.
Do your own thing—
Wear your own ring.
The knot has self-tied.
You may now kiss your pride.
Well, each to his or her own, of course.
But what if it ends in a messy divorce?
Some say the grandson of a Midlands yeoman Foresaw a then small language fully grown—
That line he gave to Cassius, a Roman, In states unborn and accents yet unknown!
Perhaps—but now, when off across the ocean A leading actor on the global stage
Reveals to all his rudimentary notion Of speech, some warn it’s near the seventh age.
His clout was enough to arrange,
Via Twitter, an upset for Strange, So the president thought. When he learned it was not,
His tweet history started to change.
A Casanova Hef was not,
Nor Byron’s pet, Don Juan,
Nor Earl of Rochester (that sot).
Of rakes, Hef was a new one
Who riffled sheaves of eight-by-tens
And turned them into gold
That warmed the Cold War’s drafty dens
With sizzling centerfold.
While news blared cover-up, high crime,
And international feud,
Hef was the Courbet of his times,
The champion of the nude.
Let Venus be his elegy;
His relics, robe and pipe.
His influence? Dons won’t agree,
Except it’s blushing ripe.
The things that he likes about Nambia Are, believe me, too many to list. Of praise for the health care in Nambia His applause mainly seems to consist. The strides they’ve been making in Nambia Are terrific ones, that is his gist. He has much more knowledge of Nambia Than of countries that really exist.
RSPCA called to rescue lizard that turns out to be a dirty sock — The Independent, September 2017
Is it a rare type of pink stripy gecko, Or some other lizardy reptile instead? Surely it can’t be a dragon (Komodo)— Enough to fill anyone’s family with dread! But no, it’s a far more formidable foe: A teenager’s sock lurking under the bed.