Monday, September 25, 2017

Arlene Corwin writes



What Is There To Gain? 
      (apropos the morning news)

What is there to gain 
By killing six or seven million people, 
Insects, plant life, animals and soil? 
Bomb of hydrogen 
A hundred times more potent  
Than the bomb that foiled Hiroshima.
.
What is there to gain 
Except a laughing Kim Jong-un – 
In front of cameras that 
Will televise to almost no one 
Anymore? Not to mention 
Money? Trade?  
Nearly or completely gone: 
At least out of the question.

Of course, 
Now that I think of it 
What’s there to gain by killing? 
Sadly, all the scriptures have it, do it, yet, 
Beneath it all is peacefulness 
And yes, non-violence.

It’s amazing what one thinks about  
While watching news that’s sprouting.

What is there to gain by murdering 
A fast becoming hopeless people 
Living on a fast becoming heap of scrap 
In nature fast becoming put to sleep 
For what will probably be 
Quite a long, long, long, long time.

to be continued… (not or maybe)
 A Reddit user used Photoshop to imagine what President Trump and Kim Jon Un would look like if they swapped hair 
 --GallowBoob

"This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever."

2 comments:

  1. The French newspaper “Libération” recently featured an article called, “Trump-Kim: Atomes Crouches.” (Atomes is “hooked atoms” in English and refers to people who have a lot in common. Donald J. Trump is the 45th president of the United States of America. Kim Jongun is the chairman of the Worker’s Party of Korea and thus the supreme leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Both leaders have engaged in provocative actions and rhetoric that threaten to lead to a new Korean war.

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  2. Photos of the Leaders: "Leader" as in 1984" Brilliant to the highest! And hilarious too!

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