Saturday, July 1, 2017

A Month of Couplets - June 2017

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6/1/17

She gave her love, then came the double-cross.
He walked away, thinking: blind fool—your loss.


6/2/17

To be the person I was meant to be
Means learning not to take things personally.


6/3/17

                 Two Ideas Of Love

He’s worthless, but she loves him for the way
He makes her think he’ll be a prize someday.


6/4/17

                       Two Ideas Of Love

He likes to say “My flaws are what create me.”
She likes to screw up, then say “Please don’t hate me.”


6/5/17

The right wing loves successful terrorists—
Laws against them can shut down activists.


6/6/17

The First Amendment isn’t worth a dime
When laws are passed that make protests a crime.


6/7/17

Life is a stage, so make the part you play
Impeccable in all you do and say.


6/8/17

               The Art of The Trump

He hollers “LIAR!” when his foes are critical.
His base cries: “Honest! Blunt! And unpolitical.”


6/9/17

Any deep feeling can, in its own fashion,
Become a great mistake—except compassion.


6/10/17

                       Two Ideas Of Love

What helps: when he's not there, he never haunts her.
What hurts: she's all he hates, but he still wants her.


6/11/17

People who treat you colder than December
Are clubs that don't deserve you as a member.


6/12/17

Two Nevers haunt all that Life has in store
For us: Never again. Never before.


6/13/17

The facts are never trusted by the pious
Because they always have a left-wing bias.


6/14/17

             The Senate’s 
          Kamala Harris Rule

You must treat liars deferentially
Whenever they reply evasively.


6/15/17

The fool will always blame the quills—and whine—
After he tries to hug the porcupine.


6/16/17

Desire: “I’ll win your love because I choose you!”
Love: “I can’t let you go, or else I’ll lose you!”


6/17/17

Friendship sees all and chooses to be kind.
Love only lasts when it’s a little blind.


6/18/17

Love writes a poem filled with perfect rhymes.
Marriage sees all the typos as high crimes.


6/19/17

      The 10 Commandments
    Of the Republican Right - 1

We must be treated deferentially,
Not asked hard questions about policy.


6/20/17

      The 10 Commandments
    Of the Republican Right – 2

It’s honesty when you applaud our tracts
And propaganda when you check our facts.


6/21/17

          The 10 Commandments
       of the Republican Right – 3

The toughest question that we want to hear
Is whether you believe that we’re sincere.


6/22/17

          The 10 Commandments
        of the Republican Right – 4

We’re weary of your smirking cynicism.
Echo our press release—that’s journalism.


6/23/17

          The 10 Commandments
        of the Republican Right – 5

We’ll treat the symptoms as if they’re the cause
And end big government with tons of laws.


6/24/17

         The 10 Commandments
        of the Republican Right – 6

We all agree that it makes little sense
To subject our beliefs to evidence.


6/25/17

         The 10 Commandments
       of the Republican Right – 7

We cannot lead this great democracy
Unless you say “Of course, Your Majesty!”


6/26/17

            The 10 Commandments
          of the Republican Right – 8

Like all whose hearts are mean, and mien is royal,
We’ll suffer traitors, but not the disloyal.


6/27/17

          The 10 Commandments
       of the Republican Right – 9

You cry: “If you have principles, then say them!”
But since we lack them, how can we betray them?


6/28/17

          The 10 Commandments
       of the Republican Right - 10

We’ll suck up to whoever is in power
Even if whores gave him a golden shower.


6/29/17

          The 10 Commandments
      of the Republican Right - 11

You can be sure that you will face our wrath
When you subject our fiscal lies to math.


6/30/17

You can rely on one thing from the Right:
The whine they serve is always cold and white.



Copyright 2017 Matthew J Wells

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