Notecards...

 

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Notecards

© February 23, 2022, the Griot Poet 

 

This spell was written on an iPhone 11 XR.

It was emailed to the author using Gmail.

It was edited using Word and Grammarly.

It was finally uploaded to Griot Poet dot Blog Spot dot com,

Annotated with an appropriate picture relating to the topic and subject,

It will be performed at an online venue called Spoken and Heard at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin, Texas.

 

As a member of Toastmasters International,

I’m tripping that the New York Times and Axios,

Wasted ink and digital media to say that “the president uses notecards at a fundraiser.”

 

Toastmasters encourage notecards.

They allow you to organize your key points in a speech.

 

This poetry piece is a notecard.

Like the actual 3 x 5 analog,

It allows me to cover the topics, subjects, and themes I’m concerned about.

 

In Nashville,

Where the Nazis marched,

The twice-impeached,

Four times indicted,

The ninety-one counts felon said this:

 

“Everybody on both sides” agreed with the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

And:

“They want you to say what they want you, what they want to have you say. And we’re not gonna let that happen. You’re going to say as you want, and you’re going to believe, and you’re going to believe in God. You’re gonna believe in God because God is here, and God is watching.”

And:

“If you think about it, you have men, you have women, and you have religion. If you look at it, you have more than the men; you have more than the women. You have such power.”

Finally, yesterday, in Greensboro:

“Yesterday, we heard that Saudi Arabia and Russia will: Rhee, bee do, gah!”

 

Before that, he couldn’t even pronounce “evangelical” without slurring!

 

He bragged about putting the three mullahs on the court that axed Roe vs. Wade and said he supports In Vitro Fertilization.

 

Has he talked to the fascists in Alabama yet?

Where a baby chick is now, an unscrambled egg?

 

This is the guy that you want to have the nuclear codes.

He wanted to use one against a hurricane!

He might test one against a tornado (over YOUR city or rural municipality).

 

He wants to build concentration camps,

Because his psychotic hero in Russia has gulags,

Where he assassinated his rival, Alexey Navalny.

Who “died” of natural causes after a walk,

On a subzero continent,

With a windchill of minus 25 degrees Fahrenheit.

 

Every other word out of the mouth of this psychopath is a word salad.

 

Yet,

The New York Times,

And Axios,

And the mainstream media 

Are getting worked up because:

The president uses notecards.

 

The guy who enacted “Project Warp Speed.”

At “all deliberate speed,”

To get vaccines into the arms of Americans to stop the deaths and bleeding,

 

The guy who did “Infrastructure Week” was the president who uses notecards!

 

At this writing:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is at 39,131,

The RECORD used to be just above 30,000.

The Standard and Poor is over 5,000,

Both are records set by the current president,

Inflation is by the 1%,

To politically wound the “No Malarkey” guy who GAVE you this,

 

But the New York Times and Axios are getting their journalistic panties in a wad,

 

That the guy who regrouped NATO,

The guy who is standing up to Putin instead of performing political fellatio on him,

The guy who’s trying to win the Ukrainian war so that the next invasion isn’t into Poland and the rest of Europe.

The guy who had to console Navalny’s widow and daughter,

While “Orange Bone Spurs” made it about HIMSELF!

However,

The REAL scandal is that the president uses notecards!

 

By the way:

I learned Calculus, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Programming, Nano Materials, Nano Physics, and Nanoengineering using notecards.

SORRY to disappoint you!

 

By the way:

If great speakers are always supposed to “riff it,”

Nailing their soliloquies with relative ease,

I hate to be the one to tell you:

Home slice ain’t even doing it with a teleprompter, a fake tan, fake hair, and lack of sleep!

 

My warning to the 4th Estate:

Fuck around and find out!

Both candidates are old: so is Bernie. But we can’t have him.

These are our two options:

One candidate uses notecards.

The other uses [word] salad and is audibly slurring!

 

You’re going to “both sides” us into what might be our last election.

He called you “fake news.”

His cult called you “Lügenpresse” (lying press),

Just like Hitler and his Nazi cult did.

If you haven’t noticed, his Brown Shirts call themselves Proud Boys and Oath Keepers!

 

This is Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols’ wet dream!

Janet Napolitano’s 2009 warnings about right wing extremism is still prescient.

 

Your smarmy “both sides” commentary will land you on cell block six!

You’re going to “cutesy” yourselves into CIA black sites!

With a comforting picture of Stephen Miller like “Big Brother” watching you!

 

Don’t worry, though.

Poets will be right there with you.

We promise to whip your asses if we’re on the same Gulag cell block,

And scrawl some verses on the walls about it before they throw us in the furnaces,

Comedians will kick your ass and make jokes about it.

Because the two things we know about Baby Huey:

He can’t take a joke, and he can’t handle the truth!

 

Fourth Estate: You want to “both sides” this?

You want to expend paper and electrons on the fact that the president uses notecards (and ignore the mental illness of his opponent)?

 

Fuck around and find out!

Along with the First Amendment,

You will be the cause of your own extinction!