A sea bereft of fish and fowl,

Against whose storms we can but howl.

While inland, raised by high degree,

Fire rages far as eye can see,

The fire a mirror of hell itself,

No refuge found, not even wealth.

What will they say, those left in pain,

Their lives destroyed by greedy gain?

Will they curse our care belied,

Or is there time to turn the tide?

~

Ashleigh Evans - December, 2017

***

“Final Analysis”

‘Twas the night before finals and all through my head

Danced a random assortment of all I had read:

Photolyze, hydrolyze, pH and redox

Primary substrate, microbial detox

Sine, log, exponent, quadratic equation

Hormone and enzyme, gene complementation

Ribosome, lysosome, phagocytosis

Must I really know what shape deoxyribose is?

Though this cognitive processing trashed my night’s rest

I wished good grades to all! May we all pass this test!

~

Deborah Meckler - December, 2017

***

Trumped up Climate change -

We need some climate change,
Don’t complain.
The storm in D.C. is out of control.

It’s not in reasonable range,
I do maintain.
The storm in D.C. is very strange.

But narcissists that be in charge,
Doubled by sociopathic needs,
Will trip up, surely, very large.

And he who shall not be named,
His disasters we should heed.
He surely can be blamed.

We follow the money,
That’s for sure.
Five hundred billion’s a lot of honey.

End the sanctions
So his buddy Putin
Happy he’ll be putting.

And to the scaffold of impeachment
It must surely lead,
Get the Twitter fool on that barge.

~

Marshall Dinowitz - December, 2017

***

We, The People

On January 21st, we gathered from wherever we dwell,

And with our hats and signs, our crowds did swell.

At the airports, we denounced the travel ban as controversial,

And we pushed in California to get healthcare universal.

We cheered as the caucus grew on Climate Solutions,

And marched for science against greenhouse gas pollutions.

Our hopes grew with every resignation,

Because it got us closer to fascism’s ruination.

We labored to articulate our Democratic Values,

So as to avoid more electoral snafus.

As we rise to defend the constitution,

We are thankful for the warriors in Our Revolution.

So say – We, the People.

~

Flavia Franco - December, 2017

Woe is me

Trump is still here

I wake up to hear tweets

Not from a bird, but from a dweeb.

~

Shirley Gibson - December 2017