Trump and Ukraine
Referendum* in vain
How to vote?
Don’t care a mote.
.
Don’t know enough,
For some, it’s tough.
To decide what’s right,
Not black and white.
.
Soon we’ll decide,
What’s truth or lie.
Then one day after**,
Just cynical laughter.
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* the Australian Voice Referendum re Constutional recognition of idigenous voice to parliament.
** a day after the referendum vote
With the indictment of Mr T@%!p we offer this musical advice from Tasmania.
Listening to Michael Cohen,
He predicts where US is goin’.
On his podcast Mea Culpa,
T## equated to turbaned mullah.
.
Tho in the past,
Interesting to hear
How the far right
We’re right to fear.
.
But I’ve ignored Aussie politics,
Berejiklian, ScoMo are in the past.
Now exposed for their past tricks,
Booted out, both on their arse(s)
I accept that I’ve listened/ watched to too many podcasts and news off of USA podcasts and news commentaries. Perhaps too many.
It would be facile to conclude this has taught me “not much.”
Across these genres I think I note a theme.
Movies are often quoted, plot lines, quotes, scenes, bon motes etc. Many of these references escape me, but seem to be raised as a means to engage the reader/listener. A kinda code indicating a shared commonality.
Few if any of the movies quoted are documentaries. Documentaries were filmic studies, and nowadays podcasts to inform/investigate matters of interest. Well that’ll do for this old fogey’s definition.
A movie is a commercialized product created for mass consumption. Its sole purpose is profit.
The vast majority of movies are fictional. Imagined past present or future scenarios to entertain for one and a half to two hours.
So to quote movies is effectively to quote fiction. Just like fables or yarns spun around the camp-fire.
Is this the ultimate american delusion?
Too far down the rabbit hole
I read vociferously.
A tale to make one’s blood run cold,
Laid out for all to see.
.
A tale told by cosumate insider.
Mike Cohen is his name.
Exposing T****’s corruption wider,
At same time Cohen’s shame.
.
Disloyalty, title of this memoir,
I read it far too late.
Providing some c seeontext for me,
To Make America Great … [Again]
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Compelling read, can’t put it down,
But is this schadenfreude?
Chronicling grift of orange clown
Perhaps he’s just schizoid?
The garden is almost silent
Save for croak of multiple frogs
Call each other without dissent,
Hidden beneath moss covered logs.
Listening to Cohen’s Mea Culpa
On podcast in Ozzie mulga*
.
Roses fall as summer passes,
Succulents sprout up, in between.
Pull out weeds with reading glasses
Juicy sprouting a vibrant green.
Cohen’s commentary is quite pungent,
Making Trump’s term seem redundant.
.
Trim lawn on number five setting,
Though grass is wet the blades cut through.
Take away the veggie netting,
Mature ripe produce in the stew,
Chronicles past like a bad dream,
Reveals things not bad as it seems.
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.* mulga = slang aussie term for the bush, wilderness, outback
Late to the game
Which seems insane
Who seeks to blame
Others
I listen in
To the podcast bin
To one man’s sin
Redemption
It’s edication history
Shreds political mystery
Away with wistery
Mea culpa.
Should you listen?
Do turds glisten?
You may be wizened
The podcast.
??
THC accepts he has scant knowledge of USofA politics. The podcast MEA CULPA by Michael Cohen, formerly personal lawyer to the 45th US president is assisting in improving my understanding. Humbly, I suggest readers might too. Try it
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