Baa, baa, black sheep

"It is more better to give than to receive.'"

—Acts 20:35, KJV (before the improvers got to it)

The brain runs dry at close of day.

I find I’ve little left to say.

Scanning the quicksands of celebrity

And flocks of garbage, you can see

What’s to hope for, and beware.

(Perhaps some enormous solar flare

Will flush the Internet down the drain,

Wiping the scoreboard clean again?)

Best for a man is not to be born,

Sophocles' Oedipus chorus says.

So here's a suggestion for our Prez:

Best f r a sherp I s not to be s h rn.

Conviction substituted for persuasion,

Truth’s become the latest fiction:

Good's not "more better" now than bad;

Lunch is not just given—but grabbed!

Thursday, September 24, 2026