Analogy...

Source: Your Dictionary dot com

 

© December 24, 2021, the Griot Poet

Waldorf Nation Podcast: https://youtu.be/QONSDca0Cuc

 

Scenario:

You have a blown head gasket,

You have your car towed to a mechanic,

Who has studied everything about engines

Since they were “knee-high to a grasshopper.”

 

The mechanic

Has certifications

In the repair of various types of engines,

Analog, and digital,

Foreign, and domestic,

 

The mechanic performs a diagnostic,

They tell you what the problem is,

 

You have a blown head gasket,

And inform you of the cost of parts,

Labor, and what the estimated time of repairs is,

 

But you take umbrage with their expertise,

You’ve “done your research,”

On Google University,

YouTube, and Reddit communities,

“Q” gives drops of insight,

The mechanic is [obviously] working with a

Globalist cabal

Of blood-drinking child traffickers,

 

You counter with the alternative remedy,

Hydroxychloroquine,

Ivermectin,

Or, Lysol,

Poured right into the oil reservoir,

That will do the trick,

So, why doesn’t the mechanic prescribe that?

 

One of the many flaws in this analogy,

Your car’s exhaust cannot infect

Another car with a case of “head gasket.”

“Head gasket” does not have an R naught,

Or, the rate a virus spreads exponentially,

Exempli Gratia:

 

Smallpox: R0 of 3

Polio: R0 of 4 to 6

(You know: that disease we defeated with the Salk vaccine?)

Mumps and chickenpox: R0 of 10 to 12

Pertussis: R0  of 15 to 17

Measles: R0  of 16 to 18

Ebola: R0 of 1.51 to 2.53

SARS CoV-2: R0 of 1.5 to 3.5

Delta: R0 of 5

Omicron: R0 of 8 to 10 (estimated)

 

The people who possess a doctorate,

In medicine, STEM, or Juris Prudence,

Are at the levels our society has demanded and deemed as the expert,

They have spent lifetimes,

Reading, experimenting, mock trials and debating,

Studying for the SAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT,

Getting letters of recommendation,

Passing preliminary exams,

Revising research proposals to satisfy committees,

Publishing peer-reviewed articles,

Collecting in the process, many rejection letters,

They have navigated the many obstacles to the doctorate,

That before Y’all Qaeda,

Were the highest challenges,

Any of them have ever met!

 

A medical professional,

Of three decades of practice,

Has decided, they’ve had enough,

 

Of arguing with Google scholars about the efficacy,

Of hydroxychloroquine, Lysol, or ivermectin,

Patients screaming at them,

“Why didn’t you prescribe 10,000 milligrams of vitamin C?”

The fact that the human body can only absorb 100 milligrams,

Is lost on those screaming invectives,

Not to mention 9,900 milligrams eliminated from your system,

[Makes] it the most expensive urine in existence,

 

I take this from the Waldorf Nation podcast,

We have devolved from the ideal of E Pluribus Unum,

To Reductio ad absurdum,

 

Wear a mask,

WASH your hands!

Wait patiently six feet distant,

(Derived from the average distance a virus travels from sneeze or cough under humid conditions: it goes further in colder weather),

 

Get vaccinated,

After that, get a booster: as many times as necessary!

Just call me "pincushion" from the Hellraiser movie series,

Jonas Salk eschewed making profits for his Polio vaccine,

We achieved herd immunity when 80% of the US - with segregated hospitals - rolled up their sleeves,

My left shoulder has a permanent tattoo to prove it,

 

The “natural herd immunity” some are pushing,

Like radiologist Dr. Scott Atlas,

Clearly “jumping the shark” with his asinine suggestion,

It brings to mind the Bubonic plague:

25 million Europeans are estimated to have died in it,

That would be 7.6% of the US population

That would suddenly be nonexistent,

Scott “Atlas shrugged,” and left,

Weeks before the insurrection,

800,000+ dead cannot be conveniently resurrected,

Adding simultaneously to the labor shortage and brute force herd immunity,

That’s a sadistic way to achieve it,

When we have the tools to fix it,

No one wants to take your freedoms,

“Liberty and happiness”

Both have ONE prerequisite,

The freedom to life is sacrosanct,

It’s as essential to the five-year-old as the zygote,

Don’t encourage an expertise exodus,

 

Please respect the medical professionals trying to save ALL of our lives as you would the certified mechanic!

Pourquoi...

© December 7, 2021, the Griot Poet 

Dans ton lycee francais: pourquoi? (Or, in your high school French: why?)

On this 80th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor invasion,

I have to ask this:

 

Why does Black Lives Matter demonstrators have to answer for looters, but the NRA never answer for school shooters?

 

Does BLM need lobbyists?

Maybe a GoFundMe to grease the skids?

The US Constitution nor common decency seems to motivate elected officials not too long for the planet,

Chuck Grassley voted against a resolution,

To take up debate on gun control in the Senate,

 

For what?

So it won’t interfere with his quail hunts or skeet shooting?

 Here's a suggestion Chuck:

Do doubles with Dick Cheney,

As his daughter attempts to save democracy,

From members of hers and her father’s former party,

"Republicans in name only,"

It isn’t a joke anymore,

They’ve given up on winning votes,

And are hellbent on blocking them,

Because after 41 years of “trickledown,”

We’re hip to the shtick,

It’s consummate bullshit,

To believe it, you have to be on a severe acid trip,

 

The GOP used to be the party of:

American exceptionalism,

Strong patriotism,

Traditional “family values,”

We should have seen the signs when they mainlined the gateway drug, Sarah Palin!

Who could see Putin’s back porch from her house in Wasila, Alaska,

Where the Inuit are interlopers like Conus First Nations people,

 

From the gateway, they went full-crackhead fascist!

Electing a failed human with three failed marriages (the third one in progress),

Speaking of Russia:

He has five kids and the mating habits of Polar Bears

Who drops their wad, and like him, take off out of there!

 

Why do we have an electoral college here,

And coalition parliaments everywhere else?

Noun: "an alliance for combined action, especially a temporary alliance of political parties forming a government or of states."

Sounds like the ideal formula for grown-ass people to cooperate.

Nelson Mandela: "Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty exists, there is no true freedom." United Nations

News flash: Joe Manchin isn’t president any more than Vladimir Putin is.

West Virginia, like Kentucky, is one of the poorest states with the wealthiest senators!

Elaine Chao and Moscow Mitch are the Queen and King of shady business deals,

Maserati Man-chin owns a coal mine, flaunts a yacht in a state with the nation's lowest life expectancy,

Textbook examples that wealth is built on the foundation of boots on necks of misery!

Term limits would require E Pluribus Unum ("US"),

To STEP UP,

Instead of complaining,

About beyond 65 retirement age geriatric legislators

Obviously getting paid under-the-table

Mathematics:

174 thousand doesn't get you in less than one term to multimillionaire status,

Ask Arizona Senator Kirsten Sinema about that!

Lobbing witty bombs on social media only gives a temporary endorphin lift,

Study civics and start RUNNING the government,

Chuck Grassley was a young man when the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote,

He probably still doesn’t understand there was a problem before it,

And questions the necessity of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments,

So does “Aunt Lydia,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett!

 

Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn’t have a problem with insider trading,

That’s how a lot of our lawmakers have gotten wealthy,

Acting for their self-interest on classified briefings,

Instead of protecting their electorate,

Republican Senator Richard Burr of NC, and Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein of CA,

KNEW about the alpha variant,

Investing in Zoom before anyone HEARD about it!

 

I repeat:

The problem with Congress and the so-called “Supreme Court” could be solved by term limits!

Justice Steven Breyer is making the same mistake Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did that got us [her] “Handmaid’s Tale” polar opposite,

Another appointment like that, the end of Roe and precedent, would make the judiciary irrelevant.

 

On this 80th anniversary of Pearl Harbor,

I have to ask this:

 

Why did we fight fascism in World War II in the 20th century,

Only in the 21st century to embrace it?

American Exceptionalism...

© November 30, 2021, the Griot Poet

Today,

A fifteen-year-old child,

Killed four of his classmates,

Injured seven: one of the injured, a teacher,

Three of the shooter’s victims are in surgery,

 

We’re a nation of sadists.

No other nation on the PLANET has so much violence that it’s become “routine.”

 

None.

 

Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut,

Remembering the sadness of Sandy Hook,

Twenty babies and six teachers,

Pictures too gruesome to publish,

The human puss sack, Alex Jones, lied about it, saying it was a hoax,

Only to admit it was an act under oath,

Losing millions in the civil lawsuit,

Senator Murphy,

Got in the well of the Senate,

Blasting his colleagues who waxed poetic

About the possible desolation of

Roe vs. Wade,

And the “sanctity of life,”

Forty-eight years of legal precedent

Ignoring Stare decisis,

Autonomy for women whose future could be limited,

By a forced rape resulting in an unwanted pregnancy,

Forced impregnation by lover, or close relative,

The rapist has the right to visitation,

You don't believe me? Ask the state of Texas.

Once this precedent falls: all others are irrelevant!

 

“Don’t lecture me about your love of life,”

That only extends to the unborn,

Post-birth: children are worthless to the corrupt and pious,

 

The North Carolina wheelchair fascist,

Representative Madison Cawthorn,

He wants his constituents “armed, and dangerous,”

He wants mothers to “raise monsters,”

Jennifer and James Crumbley said, “mission accomplished!”

Jennifer penned an open letter to Orange Satan,

Thanking him for protecting her 2nd Amendment rights

That was NEVER under threat!

Ethan Crumbley,

Will be tried as an adult,

Spend the rest of his life in prison,

 

He’s not going to be attending his senior prom,

Outweighed by the scrawniest inmate,

Any mental health issues he has,

The prison will exacerbate,

His internal demons,

His parents ignored that,

Who found out his teacher saw him,

Searching for ammo on his phone,

Drawing bloody fantasy ideation,

That would give Paul Gosar a hard-on,

 

His “responsible gun owner parents.”

Were on the lamb from the feds,

What responsible parents leave their child in prison?

The same “mom” on finding Ethan was looking for bullets on the Internet at school,

Texted him, “LOL: next time, don’t get caught.”

For four students, there won’t be a “next time.”

 

We labor under the weight of three legal fictions: borders, corporations, and racial categories.

 

You are NOT in our borders: Mecca, ‘Murica, “the promised land,” the European Union, Wakanda forever. We are “us,” and you are “them”: you do not count. You are un-persons.

 

No Mitt Romney, “corporations are not people.” The robber barons used a boondoggle of the 14th Amendment to confer unlimited power to themselves and their progeny. People have lifespans: corporations are practically immortal psychopaths.

 

Until we find evidence of intelligent Martians, the only race is the human race. Taxonomy leading to eugenics is a failure of the enlightenment.

 

E Pluribus Unum: out of many, one.

Is the first Latin anyone ever sees,

It’s part of our self-deluded fantasy,

“Manifest destiny,”

Global kidnappings,

Colonizing inhabited territories,

Subsuming religions, languages, cultures,

Yet skillfully separating everyone into camps of “others,”

This gaslighting was the violence before the high-tech weapons,

Like the handgun Ethan used in Michigan,

 

Middle finger to King Richard,

Dumping his tea in Boston’s harbor,

For the only god, they worship the almighty dollar.

The Founding Fathers were thus the country’s first tax dodgers!

 

Perhaps another language that’s alive,

With a more profound meaning:

 

Ubuntu (Zulu): meaning “humanity,”

Or, more explicitly:

“[Extend] Humanity towards others,

“I am because we are;

“I am because you are.”

 

It will not be benevolent aliens, a United Federation of Planets, superluminal space drives, or Heisenberg-defying matter re-sequencers that will spur the elimination of class struggle (and money, apparently).

It will be global cooperation heretofore unseen.

 

Such a world revolves around Ubuntu.

We sadly seem bereft of its precepts.

 

Since it begins with “u,” it must be associated with utopia: “nowhere place.”

 

This nation is steeped in violence,

The soil of four hundred years soaked in the blood of innocents,

No nation refusing to face its past can approach repentance.

 

Constitutions can be updated and amended,

E Pluribus Unum should evolve to Ubuntu,

For any future of this nation to approach exceptionalism.

Pyrrhic Victory...

 

Image source: Christian Small Attorneys

© November 25, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

I breathed a sigh of relief with the verdict:

All were found guilty of felony murder and aggravated assault.

All will spend the rest of their lives in prison.

I should feel celebratory, but I don’t.

Their feckless defense will appeal the decision.

I would [rather] never have heard his name,

Rendered to a hashtag,

I would rather he be nameless, eating Thanksgiving dinner with his family and friends.

Yet another in a long line of ghoulish behavior,

Yet another innocent African American slaughtered,

Yet another sacrifice on a hellish altar,

In a nation that prides itself on being “exceptional.”

 

African Americans

Have to give their children “The Talk.”

How to survive a racist cop,

How to try to look non-threatening on an escalator, in an elevator, in any room, while shopping, barbecuing in the park, bird watching in the park, selling loose cigarettes on New York streets, selling lemonade or water with a permit, while walking, carrying Skittles, sleeping in your bed, sitting in your apartment, and while jogging!

The list is expansive and never-ending,

Fear from a cisgender culture finding itself no longer central,

Numbers plunged for the first time since 1790 by an early end to the Census,

Walking outside of our homes,

[Has] always placed us in a war zone,

Since 1619,

We never get over the last shell shock,

We’re perpetually suffering PTSD,

In this land of “opportunity.”

 

The defense demonized Ahmaud Arbrey,

The murderers’ Billy Bob, Cooter, and Skeeter

Found their crack legal team on a box appropriately named “Cracker Jack,”

At the bottom of the trash bin at Cracker Barrel,

From the esteemed law offices of

Elmer Fudd, Foghorn Leghorn, and Nazi Barbie,

 

If black lives didn’t matter to them,

Neither did black preachers,

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson

Called out by name,

Saying there were too many of them,

Saying there were too many blacks on the jury,

Think of this:

11:1 advantage whites to one African American,

Was TOO many,

Racist tropes about Kentucky Fried Chicken,

Comments about Ahmaud jogging without socks, dirty toes,

This argument wasn’t a defense: it was the sordid rites at a Klan meeting!

 

Since Kenosha,

I was bracing for another defeat.

The fact Rittenhouse crossed state lines,

Driven by his mom,

Owned no property in Illinois or Wisconsin,

He was given a gun someone straw man purchased for him,

Handed it to a seventeen-year-old kid,

Store-bought plastic gloves,

Pretending to be a trained EMT medic,

The police gave him water and a pat on the back,

The first man he killed was a licensed concealed carry gun owner triggered by his unchallenged presence,

The second man he killed attacked him with a skateboard,

The third man survived.

Ironically, Kyle managed to blow off the bicep of an actual EMT medic.

Despite these facts,

The North Carolina wheelchair fascist,

Representative Madison Cawthorn,

Cheered the bloodlust and carnage,

He wants his constituents “armed and dangerous,”

For a future fake election loss, they can’t steal

Without the United Nations coming to the grim realization

Actively considering the so-called United States is sliding into a rogue nation,

Where democracy and the rule of law are quaint, antiquated notions,

The former fascist in chief took a perverse “thumbs up” picture with him,

Matt Gaetz and other like-minded psychopaths want to hire him as an intern,

He’s likely going to be a troll guest at the next State of the Union,

A speaker at the next Republican National Convention,

Who knew a murderer had a future in politics?

A party that has openly abandoned democracy HAS no bottom!

 

Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers are guilty.

But where does the mentality come from where you THINK you can shoot a black man, FILM it, and get away with it?

 

An answer in the comments section on Facebook from a friend of poets and authors, editor Mindy Reed,

 

“It comes from a system that has tolerated such behavior for centuries.”

 

What other country on the PLANET has a sorority and fraternity of parents who have lost sons and daughters to racial violence?

 

It’s not a stretch, nor do I have it twisted,

“American exceptionalism” is exceptionally sadistic.

 

Rest In Peace and Power, Ahmaud Arbery; you deserve it,

But other than the verdict: we’d rather have HIM with us!

Day of Infamy...

 

© November 19, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

Twenty four hours before,

A death sentence was commuted for Julius Jones in Oklahoma,

To life, without the possibility of parole,

For crime evidence says acquits him,

For a crime, he adamantly says he didn’t commit,

 

I sat in Sanford, North Carolina,

On a highway named for Confederate insurrectionist president Jefferson Davis,

With the LARGEST “stars and bars.”

Flag of sedition

That I’ve ever seen,

As the infamy came:

Kyle Rittenhouse became George Zimmerman redux,

Acquitted on all five counts,

John Adams’s words are bullshit!

We’re not a “nation of laws and not of men,”

As some laws have loopholes [for] some of them,

 

It’s now legal for vigilantes,

To use the Second Amendment to suppress the first,

The Black Lives Matter supporters

Were white,

Unarmed,

Unless you count skateboards,

 

Confederate soldiers would have called them

“Collaborators,”

“Race traitors,”

Carrying a long rifle is only illegal

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, for gang members,

Translation: black men,

I guess lying that you’re an EMT is acceptable,

As is riding from Illinois to Kenosha, Wisconsin,

Where if you had stayed your seventeen-year-old ass at HOME in your state,

You wouldn’t have SHOT anyone!

Like Trever Noah, I call bullshit!

You never got excited about any small business or the rights of a big chain outlet,

Your MISSION was to put yourself in the conditions,

Where shooting ANYONE was possible.

The defense for George Zimmerman said Trayvon Martin’s “lethal weapon?”

Was the sidewalk,

 

Kenosha, Wisconsin

Just put a bullseye,

On the backs of every social justice activist,

With the “get out of jail free” card

Of

Crocodile tears in court,

And pleading “self-defense.”

 

I was holding my breath,

On the superfluous bullshit,

To justify the hunting and slaughter,

Of Ahmaud Aubrey,

For the criminal act of jogging,

 (His murderers thankfully found guilty, the trigger man on all counts)

Do you want a history lesson?

The Nazis got their inspiration,

From southern segregationists,

But some of the black codes were TOO deep for THEM to replicate!

 

I’m too numb to be afraid, angry, terrified: my emotional well is spent.

 

Stop calling it “American exceptionalism,”

This so-called verdict is what sadism looks like!

Change Kyle’s hue to brown,

And see how “justice” would be meted out,

 

If Matt Gaetz gets his way,

He’ll probably make Kyle a congregational aide,

And bring him to the next State of the Union address,

Because: if the laws only apply to certain men,

He’ll escape accountability for underage sex trafficking,

An eight-hour blathering howler monkey in a suit will be Speaker of the House,

And the State of the Union is leaning fascist!

Justice, or Just Us?

Image source: Twitter

© November 5, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

Bill Cosby,

Was the “respectable Negro,”

Had a self-named comedy show in the 1960s,

Did a stint as a secret agent on "I Spy" with Robert Culp,

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids in the 70s and 80s,

Another Cosby sitcom in the 80s and 90s,

A standup comic [known] for his G-rated decency,

 

Wrote a book on Fatherhood,

Said a speech called “Pound Cake.”

Berating black youth culture,

(So you know, Sean Insanity LOVED him),

 

Whether you agree with it,

Bill Cosby was convicted of rape,

The crime technically is “drug-facilitated sexual assault,”

He was convicted and sentenced at 81,

A technicality overturned it and sent him home,

 

Yet, Carolyn Bryant walks free.

Who is she, you ask?

She’s the woman who accused Emmett Till,

Of flirting and whistling at her,

He came to the south from Chicago,

One of the sights the Great Migration,

Taken by his ancestors,

From the racism, violence, cross burnings, and lynchings of the “Christian south,”

Only to meet the violence his mothers and fathers ran from the south to the north,

 

Emmett was kidnapped,

From his great-uncle’s home at gunpoint,

By Carolyn’s husband at the time,

(She’s married and divorced thrice)

And two other white men,

Some say Emmett had asthma:

He may not have been whistling at her but gasping to catch his breath.

 

Say his name!

Emmett Louis Till,

Was 14 years old,

When he was taken,

Beaten,

Mutilated,

Shot in the head,

They tied an anvil around his neck,

To sink his body in the Tallahatchie River.

He was discovered three days later,

An all-white jury acquitted them.

 

Fast-forward to the trials of the vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse and the murderers of Ahmaud Aubrey in Georgia,

Miles apart, there’s precisely ONE African American on each jury!

CRT would call that systemic,

Each could decide if it’s open season,

On people protesting for social justice,

Or [just] being in the bodies of black people or Black Lives Matter supporters!

 

“Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship and an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists who seek to examine the intersection of race and law in the United States and to challenge mainstream American liberal approaches to racial justice.

 

“CRT examines social, cultural, and legal issues primarily as they relate to race and racism in the U.S.

 

“A tenet of CRT is that racism and disparate racial outcomes are the results of complex, changing, and often subtle social and institutional dynamics, rather than explicit and intentional prejudices of individuals.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_race_theory

 

In 2017,

Carolyn Bryant admitted that she lied.

Emmett Till died.

He would have been our first “hashtag” had there been such a thing,

As cell phones,

His body flown home,

His mother, Mamie Till, made the principled decision,

To have an open casket funeral,

Let America see the wages

Of its hatred,

Made the cover of Ebony and Jet Magazines,

And national media,

Galvanized the Civil Rights movement,

 

It’s not “Critical Race Theory,”

It’s the actual teaching of accurate history,

They’re protesting,

 

Yes,

What Bill Cosby did was heinous,

There’s a difference between consensual sex,

And sex by apothecary,

Whether you went to his hotel room,

To sleep with him,

Your autonomy was taken,

When you couldn’t remember the act,

Your choice was taken,

Whether you were thinking of his wife, Camille, or not,

 

Carolyn Bryant prayed “tender mercies.”

On the memories of

Emmett, and his mother, Mamie,

They’re dead,

Carolyn is still alive,

Still free,

Still not held in accountability,

 

“Let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream,” Amos 5:24

 

The words of the prophet Amos,

Bellowed by Dr. Martin Luther King,

 

This utterance applied to “Pound Cake,”

Why not Carolyn Bryant?

 

This little old lady is an accessory to murder,

 

Lady Justice’s blindfold,

Hides the genteel “wink and nod” of white supremacy,

 

It’s why you can convict America’s “acceptable Negro” TV father,

But not Carolyn Bryant, a murder accomplice!