Archive for May, 2020

Trump’s Leadership Failure 1

May 31, 2020

when people get fed up
with their inept leaders
they take to the streets

with Trump at the helm
America’s ship of state
has hit an iceberg

Minneapolis City Hall
just as dysfunctional
as Trump’s White House

Minneapolice
failed to implement
recommended reforms

Minneapolis invented red-lining; sample Minneapolis deed covenants from dearly to mid twentieth century: “The said premises shall not at any time be sold, conveyed, leased, or sublet, or occupied by any person or persons who are not full bloods of the so-called Caucasian or White race.” “The premises shall not at any time be conveyed, mortgaged or leased to any person or persons of Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, Turkish, Negro, Mongolian, Semetic or African blood or descent.”

Trump’s Covid Failure 20

May 30, 2020

Trump doesn’t give a
flying fuck about Covid
victims or George Floyd

Hey Trump. warm weather
is here. How come your virus
hasn’t disappeared?

Senryu/Haiku Quartet Plus One, Trump’s Covid Failure 19

May 29, 2020

Jacinda Ardern
closed New Zealand’s doors; Trump left
America’s open

Jacinda Ardern
is an authentic leader;
Donald Trump is not

Trump’s incompetence
has killed one hundred thousand
don’t let him kill more

Minneapolis burns
a pandemic rages
Trump golfs

Real leaders: Lincoln after Gettysburg,
Reagan after Challenger, Obama after Sandy Hook.
Fake leader: Trump during Covid-19.

https://theconversation.com/open-honest-and-effective-what-makes-jacinda-ardern-an-authentic-leader-132513

Mud Duck Racism

May 28, 2020

Institutional
racism alive and well
in Minnesota

Minneapolis
cops kill black people faster
than Covid-19

“How many times must a black man cry out ‘I can’t breathe’
before the white cops can hear him?”

Mud Duck justice
seems just as fucked-up as
Mud Duck policing

America’s three
pandemics: Covid-19,
racism and Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/minneapolis-police-death-custody-fbi/

Trump’s Covid Failure 18

May 27, 2020

Be kind to Covid
survivors. Be mad at Trump
for making them suffer.

Elect
a functioning adult
in 2020

Senryu/Haiku Sextet, Trump’s Covid Failure 17

May 25, 2020

Trump’s two-week dither
fifty-four thousand painful,
preventable deaths

fifty-four thousand
needless corpses because
Trump ignored warnings

Trump’s incompetence
unleashed Covid-19 to
ravage the nation

Trump’s Covid botch caused
fifty-four thousand needless
American deaths

if lockdowns had come
sooner thousands of people
would still be alive

It’s quite simple, folks.
People are dying because
Trump is President.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/isabeltogoh/2020/05/21/at-least-54000-us-deaths-could-have-been-avoided-if-lockdown-came-two-weeks-earlier/#a5bd49642f10

Senryu/Haiku Duet, Trump’s Covid Failure 16

May 24, 2020

future case study
of failed crisis management
Trump’s Covid fuck-up

Trump closed the front door
(China) but left the back door
(Europe) wide open

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/one-final-viral-infusion-trumps-move-to-block-travel-from-europe-triggered-chaos-and-a-surge-of-passengers-from-the-outbreaks-center/2020/05/23/64836a00-962b-11ea-82b4-c8db161ff6e5_story.html

senryu/haiku trilogy, Trump’s Covid Failure 15

May 23, 2020

be careful folks, Trump’s
Covid fuck-up is nowhere
near being over

when Trump figured out
who was dying Covid stopped
being a crisis

synagogues, churches and mosques
are virus petri dishes
that should not reopen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/study-estimates-24-states-still-have-uncontrolled-coronavirus-spread/2020/05/22/d3032470-9c43-11ea-ac72-3841fcc9b35f_story.html

A Portrait of Gifted and Talented

May 21, 2020

Lisa Piccirillo
a portrait of the genius
as a young woman

there are two kinds of
genius, the ordinary
and the magical

https://www.quantamagazine.org/graduate-student-solves-decades-old-conway-knot-problem-20200519/#comments

Senryu/Haiku Trilogy, Trump’s Covid Failure 14

May 20, 2020

if Trump’s Covid botch
doesn’t freak you out, you’re not
paying attention

Trump’s Mnuchin and
Pompeo; adult versions
of Eddie Haskell

traits Tump likes: sneaky
little rats, two faced suck-ups
and tinpot bullies