A Retirement

Posted on March 21, 2017 by stevieslaw

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Stevieslaw: My poem: A Retirement, just appeared on The Drabble

Posted on March 21, 2017 by stevieslaw

 

 

A Retirement
MARCH 21, 2017 ~ THE DRABBLE

A Retirement

By stevieslaw

It leafed out absent-mindedly
this year, our junk maple.
A street planting from the fifties,
its branches bald and barren here and there,
though not alarmingly so—
just enough that you would notice,
if you were the kind who’d notice.
It will weather this year, I imagine,
and most likely the next,
but I worry about
our foreseeable future.
On this spot, a twig of a thing,
staked out against the bare breeze,
stands in the unshadowed sun
while from this old house, some
other someone will watch it grow.
Bio: Steve Deutsch’s work has appeared in Eclectica Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, New Verse News, Silver Birch Press, and Misfit Magazine.

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Stevieslaw: Congressional Republicans to readdress health of older Americans

Posted on March 20, 2017 by stevieslaw

Stevieslaw: Congressional Republicans to readdress health of older Americans

Congressional Republicans today announced plans to modify RyanCareLess to make it more palatable to American seniors. According to a study by the Congressional Budget Office, Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 would be particularly hard hit by the repeal of Obamacare and substitution of the Ryan plan.

“Our own Congressional study,” said spokesperson N.O. Compasn, “Confirmed the findings of the CBO. Republicans are realists, and we realize that with any significant legislative act there will be winners and losers, but an alert staffer pointed out that many of the Americans who voted for us and for Donald Trump were in that age group,” continued Mr. Compass.

“We concluded that it would make it terribly difficult for our compatriots and, for that reason, it should be modified,” he said.

“So, you’ve made a mistake with RyanCAreLess and are correcting it to preserve the well-being of your fellow Americans—in particular, to reward those that voted for you in large numbers,” prompted Smokey Diamond.

“What do fellow Americans have to do with it?” asked Mr. Compasn. “We are worried about our fellow compatriots—Republicans up for reelection in 2018.” “Our study showed that under RyanCareLess a significant portion of pre-Medicare seniors would be dead or simply too sick to vote for us in 2018 and that would put Republican office-holders in jeopardy,” he said.

“We need to keep these people just healthy enough to vote for us,” he concluded.

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Stevieslaw: You Can’t Go Home Again ?

Posted on March 18, 2017 by stevieslaw

My Argument with Thomas Wolfe
Perhaps you can.
But hurry. Before dusk
grays your vision as your hair.
Before the asphalt buckles
with the weight of tomorrow.

Grab a Greyhound, man.
See America again.
Even if it’s from
the worn and tired
seats at the back of the bus,
stale with the smell
of a million miles.

Just don’t be surprised
when no one greets you.
The years treat memories that way.
You’ll need to root around a bit
to find the ones that still say home.

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Stevieslaw: Making America great again–wall by wall.

Posted on March 16, 2017 by stevieslaw

Stevieslaw: Making America Great Again—wall by wall.

Pinko-communist, fascist, liberty hating liberal snowflakes would have you believe that the pillars of American greatness are anchored by our scientific, medical, and cultural achievements. Hah! Trump and his minions are simply not buying it and their plan is to cut Federal spending on science, medicine and culture to the bone.

Said Trump Spokesperson, Ina Quot, “America’s greatness has always be defined by the quality of its massive walls. How could any reasonable American compare the discovery of a polio vaccine by Jonas Salk to the construction of the massive Manhattan-Bronx wall**. When did discovering medicines become a job for a real man?” she asked. “And it goes without saying,” she continued, “that Jonas Salk was a Jew—a race so ignoble that it has been lying about its own near extinction for decades.”

“The Manhattan-Bronx wall on the other hand was built in 1971 by hard-working, white Americans with good American names—like Cathcart, Dreedle and Korn*, to keep high rent Manhattan forever separate from the low rent Bronx. Supermen with the physiques of a Steve Bannon built it. What could be more noble?”

“Liberals would have you believe,” she continued “that there is some value to a visit to the Chicago Art Institute, for example, while the real wonder is the incredible wall built to surround Chicago** during the Reagan years, to keep the city from infecting the countryside. The graffiti is breathtaking,” she noted.

“President Trump understands that it is America’s walls that make her great—and he will spend whatever it takes of hard-working American’s tax dollars to build more and better ones—between black and white, between rich and poor, between current resident and immigrant—the need is endless,” she said with a smile.

*see Catch 22 by Joseph Heller.
**Yes. I know there is no such thing.

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Stevieslaw: The Republicans full court press on America’s health

Posted on March 14, 2017 by stevieslaw

Stevieslaw: The Republicans full court press on America’s health

Tom Price, Secretary of Health and Human Services, said today that the new health care plan was just the tip of the iceberg in the Republican plan to make Americans healthier. Said Mr. Price, “I find that people often don’t understand the underlying reasons behind seemingly disparate policy decisions and reach rather narrow, ungenerous conclusions.” “ For example,” he continued, “we have people railing against our plan to end Federal funding for mass transit—a huge cost-saving measure, without ever realizing that it is a multipurpose plan. We all know that walking is a best exercise and yet we fail to make the connection between the end of mass transit and the increase in walking that will be one of its results—live in one of New York’s boroughs and work in Manhattan?—you will soon be as healthy as a horse.”

Price also noted that the projected increase in average emergency room waiting times, from two hours to two weeks, as a consequence of the new health care law should not be taken in isolation. “Many Americans simply do not have the time to practice ‘mindfulness’—an Eastern practice that is wonderful for your well-being, what with job and family responsibilities. A visit to the ER could provide the time you need to learn to live in the moment, as you are forced to concentrate on easing your pain.”

“Republicans are all about opportunity,” concluded Price.

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stevieslaw: My poems just added are Sarah Russell’s Poems

Posted on March 13, 2017 by stevieslaw

I just tried to link to Sarah Russell’s poems. They are her poems, not mine.

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My Poems

Posted on March 13, 2017 by stevieslaw

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Stevieslaw: My Education

Posted on March 11, 2017 by stevieslaw

My Education

Grandma taught me to keep a kicker ace,
that post position trumped track condition,
and against all odds, to hit at seventeen.

She taught me to be leery
of one-eyed jacks, the queen of spades,
and politicians who found religion.
She told me often, and in crowds,
“that there moral majority
should mind its own damn business.”

Grandma taught me to laugh out loud.
She liked to watch Fox News
and rail about the morons
in America. She’d howl with joy
when Bill O’Reilly “came on to prance.”
She told me once that Palin had more balls than brains,
and could make her fortune dealing Faro in Las Vegas.

Grandma taught me I was lucky, so I am.
For thirty years
she shared a space with Mom
and Dad too small for three.
She never missed a chance to glare at Dad.

Grandma taught me
love is but a sprinter—lean
and easy from the gate,
but hate is built for distance–
surefooted, she will run,
and run, and run.

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Stevieslaw: I Mean Mean

Posted on March 9, 2017 by stevieslaw

One of my earliest posts, but sadly perhaps even more relevant today.

stevieslaw's avatarStevie's Law

I’ve been carrying this word, mean, around with me for weeks now.  I’ll share.  Yes, I know you didn’t ask.  I will keep it short.

We seem to have lost one meaning of mean now that we need it most.  What a shame.

We use the word “mean” in many ways.  In statistics, it means “average” and is often different from the median or midpoint.  As a verb, we use it for to signify or to have in mind or to intend.  As an adjective—and as a noun —we use the word in at least three ways, although it seems that only one meaning is common. In today’s world, mean is hostile or rude, and I think it’s what your six year old has in mind when she complains that her eight year old brother is “being mean to me.”  It can also have the meaning of poor or…

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