CliffSongs

  A Short One   Well, he’s five foot five and he’s barely alive, Just how much longer can he survive, The harsh environment where he used to thrive, Given the results of his current drive?   Retreating, conceiting, so many ways deceiting, His armies so often failing at completing. Wasn’t it just days that they were supposed to be defeating? How long before this results in his unseating?   When did this man’s intelligence fall benight? Has an illness caused a too early twilight? What is the basis for his rage and despite? Has he seen upon the wall the moving hand to write?   Well, he’s just five foot five, and how will he contrive, To continue to control the maddened beehive, That he awoke to attempt to deprive, A sovereign nation’s right to remain alive.   Well, he’s just five foot five… Why do we still put up with his jive?   Cliff Lake 6/30/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  SCROTUS   The Extreme Court of The United States today struck down Roe vs. Wade. This shame will not be unanswered. This atrocity will not go unpunished.   Six versus reason. Six versus health. Six versus autonomy. Six versus every woman in America.   The Unclean Court of The United States this week undermined Miranda rights. This blot will not go un-erased. This infamy will not go unscoured.   Six versus discernment. Six versus bounds. Six versus innocence. Six versus every undefended American.   The Regime Court of the United States this week undercut gun laws. This dereliction will not go unrebutted. This crime will not stand.   Six versus rationality. Six versus sanity. Six versus sense. Six versus every fucking life in America.   The Supreme Court of The United States this week exposed their corruption. This breach of trust will not go uncorrected. This malfeasance will not go un...

  Status     The squirming, the worming, the indefensible most detestable attempted unconfirming. In what way are these the actions of one we would call “president”? How do these actions speak of such a man as “leader”? Are we so blind that we must follow a known cheater, a proven liar, a charlatan beholden to the basest of his own instincts? Are we so weak that we must back down from a man that will not act for himself? Are we to allow a common bully to upend our America?  No.   Not in any manner will we allow our subservience to one so flawed that he cannot lose with the grace and dignity so long associated with our experiment in democracy. We have a process. He tried to avoid it. We have a procedure. He tried to subvert it. We have a mechanism. He tried to break it. He failed. He fails still. Is this so surprising from a man that cannot keep a casino afloat? Is this so astonishing from a man that cannot sell water? Is t...

  Stand Up!     I want you to look to Shaye Moss. Do you know what she did?   She stood up.   I want you to look to Ruby Freeman. Do you know what she did?   She stood up.   Do you know why? Because they are proud. Proud to be black. Proud to be women. And proud to be Americans. They stood up.   SAY HER NAME: SHAYE MOSS. SAY IT! SAY HER NAME: LADY RUBY. SAY IT!   They stood up for you! They stood up for me! THEY STOOD UP! They were proud to volunteer for America. They are proud still. I am proud of them. THEY STOOD UP. THEY STAND STILL! These are the American heroes of our times! These are Americans.   SAY HER NAME: SHAYE MOSS! SAY HER NAME: LADY RUBY!   STAND UP. Stand with these Americans!   Say their names… And stand up.   Cliff Lake 6/22/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  Smoke   It’s always been a mirage. The taxes that remain unpaid and unseen. The Rudy that worked for free. The inflatable assets that shrink at will. The real estate that folds in upon itself. The building projects that blow in; gone at a moment’s notice. The university that taught P.T.’s greatest lesson. The vodka and water that evaporated too quickly. The steaks that burned themselves but were never well done. The airline that crashed without any noise. The travel site that went nowhere, tell me can you find it now? The nonprofit that lined his pockets. The Trump Taj Mahal. The Trump Plaza. The Trump Castle. Gone, gone, gone. It’s all a fairy tale much too grim. But worst of all? The defense fund that never existed. Satan Claus doesn’t even believe in himself.   Cliff Lake 6/18/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  You Pays Your Money…   Hello Republican, this is Fantasyland, Where there is no Russia, but there’s border caravans. Where there is no belief in white supremacy, But somehow, you’re replaced by the minorities.   Where Disneyland now practices some abomination, And oil drilling is better than any conservation. Where more guns and even more than that, Will save all the children, cuz weaponry’s where it’s at.   Where the evidence presented by J6 committee, Can easily be explained away; don’t look and you won’t see. Where Donald Trump and his minions didn’t really plan a coup, Even though we all watched it, both me and dammit even you.   So double down Republican, I mean what is there to see? An election fund that isn’t there, you’re grifted willingly? He loves you, right? He’s said so, on and on, And there’s just no way, that all he says is all just part of the con.   Bless your hearts.   Cliff Lake 6/16/2...

  Fun, Fun, Fundable   But is it just about the money?   I wish we could have been there when Bill Barr told him. I wish we there when Bill said it again. I wish we there when Bill told him, “It’s all bullshit.” I wish we were there for that.   The election was over, but he was still collecting money? It was over and he was still collecting money? He was still collecting money.   We were all there when the courts told him. We were there all 61 times. We were there when court after court told him, “There isn’t any fraud. We are not finding fraud.” We were all there for that.   The court cases were over, but he was still collecting money? The cases were over, but he was still collecting money. He was still collecting money.   We saw that Arizona told him that Joe was still on top. We saw that Georgia told him that Joe was winner there. We saw that state after state after state told him, “Joe’s got the ...

  See   See how they peacefully protest. See the love in the air. See the windows peacefully broken. See the peaceful gallows raised. See the barricades peacefully snatched away. See the cops peacefully beaten. See the bear mace peacefully sprayed. Hear the peaceful cries of the mob. Hear the peaceful punches land. See the lovefest for the policemen. See the respect for democracy. See the peaceful baseball bats swing. See the peaceful flagstaff’s impacts. See the peaceful kicks to the face. See the peaceful riot unfolding. See the peaceful charge up the steps. See the peaceful search of the building. See the peaceful shit on the walls. See the peaceful theft of property. See the peaceful storm of the Capitol. See the peaceful transfer of power. See all of it, then try to deny.   Cliff Lake 6/12/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  Your Nightmare   Okay, listen up, Mr. Conservative, While you so loudly tout a child’s right to live. But when comes to guns you remain resistive, In fact, it really looks like you’re just combative.   You keep inventing reasons and causes galore, While assault rifles are busy creating new gore. The solution isn’t in making more and even more, That only results with more young flesh being tore.   You have a chance, don’t do nothing again, No solutions advance, so the fun never ends. We can all get back to gunning down family and friends. Well, we’re not giving up on this fight, But tell us how do you sleep at night? I hope you don’t!   So there GOP, time to seize the day! With so many guns out there this shit won’t go away. What’s it gonna take to get you to say: “Fuck the blood-spattered money and fuck the NRA!”   You have a chance, don’t do nothing again, You make excuses, but you don’t make amends. We...

  Downsized and Done   Where now are the orange flames? Look how they do slowly fade. Where are the belittling names? And the promises that have gone unpaid? Where are the adoring crowds? They tire of the same old lies. Where is the vengeance avowed? It seems like it’s in short supply. When is the big overturn? Is it still going to happen “soon”? Have the red hats started to learn? Is the air leaking the balloon? Where are the donations going? Is there really still a war chest? Why is the momentum slowing? Is everyone much less impressed? What’s happened to loyalties hard sworn? Have they faded because they’re one-way? Why is there sudden old guard scorn? Have the costs grown too large to defray? A shadow that once had loomed so large, Will pass as truth’s light does reveal. No more lies in a constant barrage, We will finally trump this ordeal.   Cliff Lake 6/8/2022     Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  Mono Slowdium Greene   I’m starting to worry about MTG; She’s displaying some vulnerability, By making it all too plain to see, That she favors white supremacy.   It’s not a case of ambiguity, Being an NRA queen bee, She thinks that guns should be more free, Than people are, like you or me.   Another area of concern, Is her inability to learn. New knowledge she just seems to spurn, While old tropes she will gladly churn.   To Bible times she would return, Because she cannot quite discern, Between a past for which she yearns, And the result of which where the world burns.   Thus I fear of her insanity, And her misread Christianity, It’s not simply some inanity; It’s a case of no humanity.   Cliff Lake 6/6/2022     Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  Prime Time   The House J6 committee, Getting down to the nitty-gritty, None of it’s gonna be real pretty, Gotta say I’ve got no pity.   Mark Meadows are you still taking your texts? Will you try to look all perplexed? Will you say they’re out of context? I’m pretty sure your luck is real hexed.   How you gonna explain your crime time? Are you gonna plead the 5 th in mime time? Maybe you’re gonna do a dime time. How you gonna look in prime time?   You guys tried an insurrection, After losing an election. Now the House completes detection, Bear witness to your rejection.   Gotta wash away the slime time, Gotta clean up all your grime time, Gotta set a new paradigm time, Gonna clean your stains in prime time.   Cliff Lake 6/5/2022;    Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  A Blessing   I didn’t find a mass shooting in my email today. That makes it one day in a row. Tomorrow may get here too soon. School is letting out for the summer… Where will the killers go to practice their art? Where is the next altar to the NRA? Perhaps the hunting will not be so easy, Or perhaps it will, The children will not be able to get inside, Because Senator Rafael Cruz is afraid of doors. He will let the blood spill outside for the good of the NRA. Do you know when the next psychotic blood let will occur? Me either. But if we all get some good old American iron, We can support the NRA. They need us you see, Because they don’t pay taxes, Or accept responsibility, Or have consciences, Or even Louie Gohmert’s heart. They have us for all of that. We can bleed. God bless the fucking NRA.   Cliff Lake 6/4/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  At’s     The GOP is adamant that the Dems are after SA 2, Well Republicans, that’s not the case, so here’s some truths I’m going to @ back at you: @RepKenBuck claims the Ar-15 is required to defend domestic fowl, The bullshit he’s piling on is so deep that he is required to use a trowel. @replouiegohmert is of the belief that we think he has no heart, No Louie, what we actually think is that it’s your soul that is torn apart. @RepMattGaetz is hedging his bets on “shall not be infringed”, Put that way Matty, you just sound catty, and more than a little unhinged. @LindseyGrahamSC, has his ’15 so he can defend against gangs, Yet no matter how many kids in schools are shot up, he never feels any guilt pangs. And @RepMTG said that she believes in “a heavily armed population”, Perhaps she’d like to stop by Tulsa today and witness that mutilation. Oh and @laurenboebert, what does she assert about guns going to Ukraine? @RepBoebert, your brain mu...

  A Note to Teddie   Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz, as an American politician, Can you explain to me or anyone the status of your condition? Your emotional distortions, in tandem with your mental contortions, Can only be explained by your bank account’s proportions. How dare you try to explain away the deaths of children in Uvalde, By way of a teacher’s negligence in securing a doorway? No matter which way the tale is spun, it’s become apparent to everyone, That your loyalties are bought and paid for by the purveyor of the gun. To twist the facts you’ve tried and tried, some you’ve even tossed aside, But the central matter here, Ted, is you’re accessory to homicide. Second Amendment remains secure, it’s obvious that we need a cure, But the NRA’s onus and your allegiance to them you are trying to obscure. Bravery is not defined by the roar of the carbine, Is it true Ted that without the gun you truly have no spine? By advancing the stance we see, the ...

  Dead Words   Second Amendment’s debated now, word spake long into night, But words are words, it’s action now that must address this plight.   In all this matter, with all the words, with all that will be said, Remember this: you cannot query the dead.   So gather ye, if ye must, in quorum and committee, And if blooded specter be brought before you, well that’s just some tough titty.   For as you debate and debate some more, get this through your head: It doesn’t matter what word you use; you cannot convince the dead.   AR-15s, assaulting dreams, do they assuage all your fears? Or just too mean, somehow unclean, and create some mother’s tears.   By the NRA’s briberies you continue to be lead, Take some spent bullets along and commiserate with the dead.   Will an unlocked door even the score, will it keep out evil men? Or will there be more at the grocery store, what will you do then?   I ask you...

  How Many?   On May 24, 2022 With classes going and homework due, Lunch wasn’t even quite through, In a school in Texas where the bullets flew…   How many times will they have to run? How many ways are the arguments spun? How many times ‘til it doesn’t stun? How many children will face the gun?   Only ten days since the grocery shop. Only ten dead from the killer at Tops. It’s not as if lives are any cash crop. How many die before a full stop?   How many times will they have to run? How many ways are the arguments spun? How many times ‘til it doesn’t stun? How many children will face the gun?   Over twenty dead in the month of May. Almost as if it’s every day. How do we hold the violence at bay? How many more lives have to pay?   How many times will they have to run? How many ways are the arguments spun? How many times ‘til it doesn’t stun? How many children will face the gun?   Clif...

  Matthew 23:3, Conservatively   And they did call down their god upon the blasphemers who would allow the immigrant in. They did not read Leviticus 19:34. And they did curse those of other nations. They did not read Deuteronomy 27:19. And they would not feed the starving children among them. They did not read Psalm 146:9. And they would not provide answer to the oppressor of innocents. They did not read Job 29:15-17. For they will have dominion of this place and will turn away from the suffering they themselves cause. They have turned away. They have forgotten you. Mammon is before them and with them. They did not read Matthew 6:19. And they did call upon their god to visit destruction on the just. They did not read Matthew 7: 15-20. And they would march against those they cannot silence. They did not read Matthew 26:52. And they did claim they live in The Way. But what have they read? Where is their understanding? Have they no love...

  Stand   Can you see it? The darkness that is creeping in? It is there in the full light. Some deny it. Some cheer it. It is alive and it is bold. It will eat you. Can you hear it? The stain that is shifting in? It is under the dreaming day. Some refute it. Some approve it. It is making it’s way and it is inexorable. Will you stand? Will you hold the day? For darkness will have you in the void while you yet live, That is it’s way and it’s strength: it is empty. Hate is it’s fuel, fear is the impetus, envy is the root. From these you gain nothing. You will become empty. Can you feel it? The corruption of the all? It is there! And here! And there again! Some will refuse it. Some will claim it. They will believe they own all. They are empty.   Can you see it? It sees you. It is coming. Stand! Deny the entry and it must fall back into the shadow that it is. Stand! That is The Way. You can be The Way. Stand. ...

  What They Do   Those GOP’s, they talk all day, But the truths they have are much too few. Do not listen to what they say, They reveal themselves by what they do.   Now Marjorie entered the fray, Some rhetoric she had to spew. For formula she votes no pay, And then she cries “DEFUND THE WHO!”   Conservatives, oh yes, they pray, To Mammon perhaps, but not for you. Do not listen to what they say, They reveal themselves by what they do.   And Lauren, what does she bray? “Free speech!”, she says, “Unless you’re blue.” She too votes formula away, Then asks, “What does Biden ever do?”   Red politicians, gone astray, They score their points, but voters screw. Do not listen to what they say, They reveal themselves by what they do.   Gym Jordan, who ignored the coaches play, Says he knows what’s best for you. He won’t feed babies, not today, Then claims that’s what the Dems won’t do!   Those ...

  Once Upon a Time He Was Dead Or The Future Past of Vladimir Putin   Once upon a time the man was dead. He had lived, but that was the past. He is dead. He’d had hair and a wife. (He was dead) He liked kidney beans. (He was dead) He had two brothers. (They are dead) He joined the KGB and hated many. He was a Lieutenant Colonel. Then he died. He made some children. (He was dead) He liked being photographed doing brave things. He pretended he wasn’t a Fascist. He was addicted to being threatening. (But he died) He had lots of money and sometimes people got poisoned. (They died) One time he invaded the country next door and got his boat sank. (It is dead) He liked to call people he was planning to kill “Nazi’s.” (Many died) He didn’t often wear hats or follow the teachings of Christ. He liked parades. But he is dead. Soon.   Cliff Lake 5/17/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  Dancing to the Right   I watched while you ranted and raved About the people you would save, From the invented peril grave, Some horrid vast incoming wave.   But suddenly shots rang out! Some racial pig had reared it’s snout. He’d heard what you did quietly shout, For votes you must turn about…   When will you turn again? Insincerity with no end. You’ll spin your tale now, but then, Back to your vipers’ den, Tell me now – When will you turn again?   Being called out for your spiel, Oh, some thoughts you’ll repeal. Feet of clay, not of steel, Tell me, is any part of you real?   When will you turn again? Insincerity with no end. You’ll spin your tale now,   but then, Back to your vipers’ den, Tell me now – When will you turn again?   Cliff Lake 5/16/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022  

  Tops   Someone has opened cruelty’s door, Spouting race lies that once were yore. To pallid knights fealty swore, 4chan always seeking more.   Some believe in a racial war, Replacement theory gone full bore. They mean to settle imagined score, Ten gunned down at the grocery store.   So it’s Hail! Hail the NRA! To the Second Amendment we do pray! And Hail! Hail the bullet spray! Might is Right, let’s keep it white, If we find you in our sight, We’ll keep our trigger fingers tight, And it’s your fault if you’re blown away.   14 words brought to the fore, See the dead there on the floor. Believing in Supremacy’s lore, Ten gunned down at the grocery store!   So it’s Hail! Hail the NRA! To the Second Amendment we do pray! And Hail! Hail the bullet spray! Might is Right, let’s keep it white, If we find you in our sight, We’ll keep our trigger fingers tight, And it’s your fault that you’re blown away....

  And He Weeps   Say you so-called Christian, why do you torment those willing to take a stand? What the fuck makes you so special with your Bible in your hand? For Jesus Christ’s sake, read the damn thing, maybe you’ll understand, That liberty is liberty, and freedom means everyone’s, not just the players in your band.   Oh sure, you all loudly proclaim you’re all so goddam pro-life, But things change very drastically when it’s YOUR child, YOUR wife. It’s about time you really picked up the Scriptures; put down the knife, Don’t be so prone to preach at me, with your hypocrisy so rife.   It’s as if you have never heard or understood the teachings of the Lord: Violence is not The Way; shall you live and die by the sword? I am not impressed with your so vaunted numbers, that so-called horde, Clearly you have forgotten just where the grapes of wrath are stored.   So spare me your impoverished and falsely proclaimed piety, It’s cl...

  Yesterday’s Attempt   Super-Stupid and Mr. Violence climbed out from under their stone, With their bones to pick and their axes to hone. They wanted to believe they were the Forgotten People, That they were the abandoned and the alone. So they flexed their social media and fell into the rabbit hole, And reached out to grab all that they could trade in for their soul. They wanted to believe that they deserve everything and all, And so set out to praise greed and subjugation and other evil to extol. Now Super-Stupid and Mr. Violence made a major miscalculation, Thinking that kindness and empathy could never survive their negation. They wanted to believe they could beat the gentle into obedience, Never realizing that compassions’ bindings will overcome their predation. So Super-Stupid and Mr. Violence now try to ravage our land, Savagery, and servitude, and scorn has become their brand. They want to believe that they can beat us all down with the...

  We Woke   Listen here conservative, you think you’ve won with your fear and your hate? So you think that this is the way now, to terrorize and subjugate? You think we’re gonna lay down now? Well welcome back to 1968. And don’t believe you’re going to put us down with a repeat of Kent State,   It’s gone too far now, you’ve gone too far now, you have opened a gate, That only goes one way, and in doing so you have sealed your fate: A road is open now and down it we see the way narrow and straight, And now our anger against injustice is not going to dissipate. Our freedoms are threatened and we will not allow you to subjugate, Our women or our children to your attempts to completely abrogate, The rights that all of us have us have been afforded by laws that delineate, What a person is allowed to be, laws that indeed started to make our country great. Instead, you have elected to drag us all back to some Middle Ages date, When only the monarchy ...

  One Day in 2022   One day in 2022, in the state of Tennessee, They asked, “How do we turn everything to 1863?” They put their heads together, and this thing came to be: “Let’s start by taking women’s rights, so that everyone’s more free.”   But Louisiana said, “Hey hold on a minute, friends!” “Women can still get abortions here, that practice we’ll suspend!” So they put their heads together and this law they intend: If a woman gets an abortion, that woman’s life will end.   And then Missouri said, “Hold on a second boys, we too can litigate.” “We’ve got some stuff we came up with; things we can dictate.” “Just like you guys, on the unborn we fixate; We’ll even remove legality of abortion out-of-state!”   Now you women who live here in our crazy U.S.A. You’re going to have to do what you can while you all still have your say. And as a man, I can tell you, I’m with you all the way, Because this will be the first stumble of...

  Who Says?   Who doesn’t understand the questions of rights? And why someone else’s are there in your sights? Why is healthcare so politically charged? How is it your opinions got so enlarged, That you can so indiscriminately, Tell everyone else who they have to be? Who gave you the right to make your religion, The basis of everyone’s lives and decisions? Why is it that your subjective belief, Requires that others be subject to much grief? Don’t you get that you too are quite liable, To be judged by the words that are found in your Bible? You rage and you rant that you want to be free, So long as it doesn’t inconvenience thee. You’re really not so concerned about saving life, This is just one more way of your wielding the knife. So spare us your anger, your indignancy, Remember that you too know unwanted pregnancy. I refer you back to the words of God’s Son: “Love your neighbor.” And that means everyone.   Cliff Lake 5/4/2022...

  Hold Fast   The darkness descended in the not-too-distant past, Brought upon us by those who know that they’re fading fast: Old and broken and full of hate, They’re never going to hesitate To ensure that you and I – the majority, will always come in last.   Making up rules that they themselves won’t be following, All the while telling us it’s freedom that they’re allowing. Watch them sneaking past in the night, Their deeds will not abide the light. So it’s back into the Dark Ages that we’ll be wallowing.   Equal rights do not give me more rights than you or you or you. But taking rights from anybody is never the right thing to do. A persons body is theirs alone, There is no one you ever own, It will be the suffering of many to satisfy the few.   They say it’s darkest before we see the dawn and it’s breaking light. We must hold fast to truth, and love, and what we know is right. Do you think they have the win? Now a...

  Triggers   Joe Biden is president, that’s just the righteous truth. No one is teaching CRT to anybody’s youth. Banning books is you inhibiting Free Speech. “I believe in Jesus!” Why don’t you practice what you preach? “All you Dems are groomers!” Have you heard about Matt Gaetz? “You’re trying to take our guns!” which still hasn’t happened yet. “Ukrainians are Nazis!” yet Zelenskyy is a Jew. “You want to turn everyone gay!” Mads is LGBTQ. “The election was stolen!” Meadows registered thrice. “Liberals are violent!” You stormed the Capitol, but it did not suffice. “The economy is tanking!” It’s a global issue, boo. “What about the southern border?” No one’s coming after you. The fact of all these matters is that you’re all being misled. A pile of mangled fact or outright lies you’re fed. Are you working? Are you warm? Did you get enough to eat? Take some time for reality; no more dead horses should you beat.   Cliff Lake 5/1/2022 C...

  Projectiles   Now MAGA I’ve got some truth for you, Sit down, we’ve got so much to get through, About pedos, and fascism and how you back the blue, And CRT and banning books and what actually affects you.   So without pointing fingers at Matt Gaetz, And receipts, and plane rides and all that he abets, And I won’t mention Gym Jordan, at least I won't yet, What he saw at Ohio and what it is that he forgets.   And remember how you backed the blue? Into a corner at the Capitol on cue? How at them with bats and mace your swarming minions flew? Most citizens ask what’s the matter with you?   And banning math books, what’s that about? Is it because you can’t figure them out? Maybe it’s DeSantis, that hulking lout, And the line of books that he will tout?   And what’s this all noise about CRT? Did they really teach it to you and me? Look in your kids books, what do you see? Do you find it in there suspiciously? ...

  The Mighty Moskva   This is the tale of the mighty Moskva, king of the Black Sea force, This is the tale of the Ukrainian fighters, who targeted him of course. This is the tale of the Russian flagship which ends inconveniently, This the tale of that ocean fortress that now sails beneath the sea.   See the Russian invader fighting from afar! See the smoke of Russians burning; their bodies turned to char! See the fires! See the flames! See the listing beast! See the fins of sharks approaching, on Russians they will feast!   This is the tale of the bloody invader; you cannot see him now. This is the tale of the Ukrainian scuttle: stern and deck and prow. This is the tale of Ukrainian missile, landing exactingly, This is the tale of a former flagship; he sails beneath the sea.   See the Russian invader fighting from afar! See the smoke of Russians burning; their bodies turned to char! See the fires! See the flames! See the lis...

  Motherland Blues   So you left the Motherland, off to kill a “Nazi” or two. Funny that all of those “Nazis” are bravely led by a Jew. So you strapped on your boots and your gun for the three day operation, Too bad Russki, you opted for a permanent vacation.   Oh to be a Russian, pretending to live in riches and swank. Oh to be an invader on Ukraine soil, burning to death in your tank. They have the upper hand, You’re on sovereign land, And for that you have your Putin to thank.   So there you are, a rotting corpse so fetid, smelly and dank, Perhaps you would have been better off on the Moskva when it sank? This war of yours is stupid and costly, if I may be all that frank, Ukraine will continue to be well supplied, on that you bet you can bank.   Oh to be a Russian, pretending to live in riches and swank. Oh to be an invader on Ukraine soil, burning to death in your tank. They have the upper hand, You’re on sovereign l...

  Voices, Choices   Well, Elon he has made his bid, we wait with bated breath. Behind the scenes Trump grins and schemes since Truth Social’s near death. How do we so fiscally underrepresented, Maintain our gains, and voice our pains, though they be so resented?   How do you end democracy, what’s the secret plan? Buy up all the media, as many as you can. How do we keep them from enforcing free speech ban? Speak loudly! March proudly! Remaining hand in hand!   So here we stand, keyboards in hand, waiting on the board. And there is Musk, threatening dusk, wielding money as a sword. How do we fight, it seems their might will never reach its end? We don’t lay down, we stand our ground, our will can never bend!   How do you end democracy, what’s the secret plan? Buy up all the media, as many as you can. How do we keep them from enforcing free speech ban? Speak loudly! March proudly! Remaining hand in hand!   Cliff Lake...

  Bots   Cruisin’ ‘round the Net: the social media accounts, Waitin’ for the perfect word, then you have to pounce. Was your presence here created yesterday? Repeating all the same old lies is all you have to say.   Trump-o-bot, chump-o-bot, Tired old, hackneyed lines are all you got. Trump-o-bot, dump-o-bot, Actual animation you have not.   So, you find some rich guy to buy it all up, Someone with no conscience, someone real corrupt. Someone that maybe Ghislane Maxwell would know. Someone that knows exactly how low someone can go.   Musk-o-bot, husk-o-bot, Is there a human inside there you have caught? Musk-o-bot, rust-o-bot, Actual animation you have not.   So, the bots they multiply day by day by day. And management doesn’t manage to make them go away. When will the support geeks wade into the fray? What’s the good of platform support if their feet are made of clay?   Support-o-bot, report-o-bot,...

  Phone Scan   Kevin McCarthy, kompromat. Say, where are your loyalties at? Do they reside in Moscow? Or to Putin’s Trump card do you bow?   Kevin McCarthy, phone recorded. I wonder if you’ll get this sorted. Did you ask Trump to resign? Or is this just bullshit of thine?   Kevin McCarthy, what say you? Kinda seems you might be through. Gym Jordan may just have the thought, That he’s going to take your spot.   Kevin McCarthy, do you distract? From Marjorie’s traitorous fact? Kevin McCarthy, don’t you see? You’re probably sinking the GOP.   Cliff Lake 4/23/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022

  Face It   Here’s a thing that you should learn: An expert helps with health concern. A person with a pedigree, Someone who’s earned doctor’s degree.   Now maybe you hear congressman Tell you what, and where and when, To listen to the CDC, But do they have that one degree?   A real expert has studied long, To earn the right to say what’s wrong. Not some fevered Senator, Who’s looking to score points some more.   You need a doctorate you see, Not some lowly GED. So, listen up, it’s no real task, In public wear your goddam mask.   Cliff Lake 4/21/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022  

  Bonfire Bozos   You’re banning books - a sorry play, You know those words won’t go away. Thinkers, logicians are just too proud, And let’s face it, we’re very loud.   Remember you thought you killed Maus? Sales skyrocket, your stupid loss. You don’t want math, what a bummer, That means you don’t have the numbers.   Now you want to cancel Walt, You won’t go there, that’s your own fault. What will you tell your little misses? They can’t be Disney Princesses?   Gender, trans, gay, and CRT, You so fear equality. Don’t you get you’ll feel the pain Of your party’s full brain drain.   For concrete knowledge we ever yearn, Won’t matter how many books that you burn. We’ll never stop, we got the guts. So ban away you stupid putz. Cliff Lake 4/18/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake

  Tucker the Sucker   Tucker, Tucker, testosterone fall, Tucker, Tucker, please tell us all. Tucker, fucker, making a haul, Tucker, sucker, is having a ball.   Tucker Carlson, he’s tanning his nads, Tucker Carlson don’t know that it’s bad. Tucker Carlson, it’s so very sad, Tucker Carlson, you know you’ve been had?   Tucker Carlson, your document’ry, Makes it look like you’re recently free. Tucker Carlson, my balls just won’t be, In anyone’s tanning bed, even yours, don’t you see?   Now Tucker Carlson, it’s been so much fun, This poem is over – I gotta run. Tucker Carlson, I’m tellin’ ya hun, My testes I don’t want overdone.   Cliff Lake 4/19/2022 Copyright © Clifford Lake 2022