R.E.S.P.E.C.T

I have long been 'no respecter of persons [of status]'
and yet every day I am pleasantly surprised
when for having a respect for ordinary people,
regardless of their status or lack of it,
that the same respect has been returned to me,
enhanced by me being included in it.   

Satire Protest And Democracy

When The President has no sense of humour,
proportion, nor an apt sense of what is decent,
or not, then it is the duty of the people to promote
their sense of what he should do on his behalf.

The Best Good Works

are often done in secret,
or when we are covered by a shame
that others invoke over us, unawares
whereof we can neither speak nor write
but sometimes pray with strange groans
because our thinking is so blocked.

If we can do good when more controlled
than we know about, or are comfy with,
then after that is when hindsight reveals
the good faith, built on an unknown grace,
that carries us through those bad times.

Friendships And Family Values

built on one self or another being pitied,
where others rescue them from same,
will only ever be as weak or strong
as the foundations they are built upon.

Where the weak they are apt to need
more consistent repair than they think
then they rely on others to find for them.

Friendships are best
when both friends
play to their strengths  

Mistakenly

conflating discomfort with public honour
will cause suffering for no moral cause.
Such suffering will also cheapen
the genuinely moral causes around it.

Flatocracies

Crude majorities
produce flattened democracies,
where the media debate (such as it is)
is that we can't debate anything
until the politicians decide everything
so the public can be told what to think.

Only then can the public seal their divisions
by where they ink their X on the ballot paper.

American Humour

often reads wonderfully well on the page
when that happens it sharpens the mind of the reader.

But when such great wit transfers itself
to team written situation comedies for television,
where the demands of the medium
reduce the attention span through tricks
product placement and and laughter tracks
which combine to to sell more product
within and between shows then the mind
rapidly glazes over and shrinks
with the depth of aggressive targeting....