Betsy Devos is Confirmed

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An unqualified moron (my humble opinion), has just been confirmed as Education Secretary of the United States. A woman who never set foot in a public school is now in charge of them. A woman who at the senate confirmation hearings said guns are needed in the classroom to protect against “potential grizzlies” can now protect our children against grizzlies in the classroom.

This is what republicans want, because they want a voucher system, which is what this idiot (my humble opinion)wants. So who wins? The wealthy who have their kids in private schools will get money back with the voucher system. Those who have the luxury of choice get money back. The poor, and the middle class who are stuck in the public school system lose funding and the interest of those with the tax purse. What is bad now will get worse.

Oh well…

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Snapshot #103

Snapped this one just outside of Doright Manor on a cloudy afternoon. I call it, “Look! In the Sky ! It’s a Bird, It’s a…Bird. Just a Bird.”

Love Kept

He always knew where to find me, beneath the stairs with a novel in my hand. 

The question was always the same, Whatcha reading? I instantly responded, A book,

Knowing he’d chuckle at my lame predictability. Back then we kept love in our pockets 

Like wrapped peppermints to be savored after a spicy meal. Cool reminders of everything

Important. Kiss me now, I thought. While my breath is sweet and you are laughing at my joke.



Snapshot #102

The fairies in my backyard have kept a low profile all winter, but I found this little miss contemplating the coming of spring. I call this one, “A Think of Beauty.”

The Saddest Things

If tomorrow booted goons came to silence my free speech,

If in the night I found myself imprisoned for my beliefs,

The saddest thing would not be my arrest, but that 

Friends like you would sit by and say, Well she did bring it on herself.

Oh, you might wring your hands when the executioner comes,

And you might pray for my poor soul’s repose,

But the saddest thing is you’ve watched democracy poisoned

And opened wide for the bringer of death’s dose.

With every measure this fool in charge claims greatness

A sleight of hand meant to convince and confuse

So when my body is hanged in the virtual square,

It’s your gullibility that’s tightened the noose.

And the saddest things are the memories of you with fierce ideals 

Now turning a blind eye to injustices in a quest for the status quo

Those protest songs traded now for hymns of the prosperity gospel

Nothing like an evangelical sermon and a gaudy mummer’s show.

Oh! What a Tangled

The vines entwine almost playfully about themselves and their host trees. I call this one, “Throw Me a Line.”

Falling

Falling from great heights
Stomach dropping headiness
Help me bungee cord!

Falling in deep love
Hormones rush in hectic waves
Help, help me Rhonda!

Falling in slow mo
Like an action movie scene
Help me Chuck Norris!


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