I am delighted that August 18th is recognized in some corners of the planet as "Bad Poetry Day." If you appreciate good poetry, and if you've written poems that aren't half-bad, then there is nothing more silly and fun then to write something that's just dreck! And I can't think of a better subject for "Dreck" than the recent decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to put Judge Vaughn Walker's order for California to resume marrying same-sex couples on ice... with promises of "fast-tracking" a hearing in December. If you think "God time" is slow... try "Justice time"!
O, California!
You lift me high.
You make me see the promised land.
You allow me to taste the sweetness of victory promised
to those who wait.
And wait.
And wait.
And wait!!
The weight of the wait is a heavy load, brother,
You, with your courts in one camp,
Your government in retreat,
And your people confused
have left your observers confounded,
Bewildered and broken-hearted.
Are you the bell weather of this nation?
Are you just a noisy gong?
Your latest court ruling clangs like a toddler beating on pots.
O, California,
Is love in the land of the flower children of old
so foreign to you now?
How you have forgotten freedom!
Justice delayed is justice denied;
Or maybe your message lies elsewhere:
is it "just us" who need not apply for
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
O, California,
Land of golden gates,
Tall redwoods,
Glitter, glitz and glam...
You aren't so hip after all.
1 comment:
Pretty funny but not bad and it gets the message across.
Peggins
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