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Monday, February 20, 2017

Some En-Light-enment for a Dark Age: Two Psycho-Political Parodies

Two psycho-political parodies from The Stress Doc.  Enjoy!

Some En-Light-enment for a Dark Age:  Two Psycho-Political Parodies

At a meeting with Nepali allied health colleagues, all who are American citizens, the impact of this new administration’s pointed messaging was palpable:  Is America still a safe place for who folks who don’t look like the traditional “majority?”  From a female colleague with brown skin and dark hair recently attracting intense disapproving stares in a restaurant (i.e., people assuming she is “Muslim”) and aggressive “go back home” texts/taunts on social media, to people who have no legal-rational reason, feeling wary about walking in public, many of all walks are starting to feel like endangered “strangers in a strange (more repressive) land.”  In addition to attending rallies and making donations, my push-back method is through words.  The first lyric written this week; the second written the night of the Nov. election.  Hopefully, the democratic pen will prevail over the autocratic sword!  The New “R & R”:  Resistance and the Ridiculous!  MG
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The Fairy-Tail Emperor

When it comes to "media facts"
The Donald does not suppose
Nor bothers with smoking gun tracks...
Simply follows his swelling nose
To the bare bottom of "nasty" attacks
From those "fake-sore loser" foes.

Oh Trumpty Dumpty
Do you know what you know?
Oh Humpty Trumpty
How your little nose grows!
Oh Dumpty Trumpty
You'll stretch the truth
As far as it goes…
What will your gang do
To we who oppose?

Staring down protest in the streets
Alone high atop Mount Ego
Zeus-man keeps hurling tweets
Of all that he knows
It's how "The Man" blows
Up his Olympian PRIDE
He's "not a crook," has nothing to hide

For there is truth in his prose:
One more "Master of the Universe”
Alas, without any clothes!

Oh Trumpty Dumpty
Do you know what you know?
Oh Humpty Trumpty
How your little horn blows!
Oh Dumpty Trumpty
Here's a Russian Red Rose
To help you cover up
That butt naked pose!
Here's a Russian Red Rose
To help you cover up
That butt naked pose!


© Mark Gorkin  2017
Shrink Rap ™ Productions


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11/9:  Have We Seen this Before?
(Or, The Night of Broken Dreams)

Reading about the post-election wailing and grief or the counter-reaction of "stop the whining," helped me realize the personal value of my coping option: turning a political lemon into poetic lemonade. Enjoy...or not!

My biggest fear in this election campaign was that Donald Trump was providing a platform for social-cultural hatred, a hatred by a variety of supporters, surrogates, and sycophants.  Such flame-throwing typically targets groups based on race, ethnicity, nationality, geography, gender, sexual identity, and/or religion.  I don’t believe Mr. Trump is a fanatical hater, more a conditional one:  a) when someone rubs his ego the wrong way (alas, this happens too easily), b) when women complain Mr. T has “rubbed them the wrong way” (alas, this happens too frequently), and c) when he strategically or spontaneously bullies or demonizes “the other” to gain supporters and votes and win a “negotiation” or political battle.  I hope my fears are mostly baseless.  I pray (despite being a Jewish atheist) that the new President will resist the urge to Trumpism, to become a dictatorial, Putin-like “strong man” repressing dissenting voices and constitutional rights.  I will congratulate Mr. Trump hardily if he genuinely helps rebuild our infrastructure and the economic options and standing of working-class families.  In truth, many of his other avowed premises and promises frighten me – personally, for our democratic ethos, and for our fragile planet.  So, I will be vigilant.  To loosely quote Ronald Reagan:  warily trust and verify.  Until then…I versify!


11/9:  Have We Seen this Before?
(Or, The Night of Broken Dreams)

Please do not think me dumb
Or even merely craven, yet
Will 11/9 become
Our homegrown 9/11?

Ah, the ironic paradox
The choice of free election.
Have we unleashed Pandora’s Box:
A swarm of white-male venom?

Oh tell me Mr. Trumpty
How do you run on empty?
Oh tell me Humpty Trumpty
How many have you dumptied?

Forgive my taste in history
To look back does no good
Still…a little pre-war Germany
And streets running with blood?

Why am I compelled to rant?
Perhaps a mere sore loser.
Though not a recent immigrant
(More “word artist” itinerant)
For you…does my life matter?

Oh tell me Mr. Trumpty
Why are you so grumpty?
Oh tell me Trumpty Dumpty
How many have you humptied?

“Why are you so paranoid?”
“He will drain the swamp!”
I gaze into the krystal ** void:
One big internment camp!

I do not fear the Mighty Wall
For I will not be barred
But one and all, from grace may fall
When “vermin” are gold-starred. ***


** The choice of the “kystal” spelling is a blend of “crystal” and “Kristallnacht” also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass.   “Kristallnacht was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows smashed.

Estimates of the number of fatalities caused by the pogrom have varied. Early reporting estimated that 91 Jewish people were murdered during the attacks. Modern analysis of German scholarly sources by historians such as Richard J. Evans puts the number much higher. When deaths from post-arrest maltreatment and subsequent suicides are included, the death toll climbs into the hundreds. Additionally, 30,000 were arrested and incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps.” (Wikipedia)

*** During the Nazi reign, Jews in Germany (and elsewhere, I believe), were mandated to have gold Jewish Stars sewn on their outer garments, to single out and stigmatize them when in public, increasing their chance for ridicule and much worse intimidation.


© Mark Gorkin  2016

Shrink Rap ™ Productions

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