Shall I compare thee to a ditch’s weed?
Thou art more dank and more loud.
Fully robust with buds of THC
That fill my veins, my brains to shroud.
My eyes may be glass, but I’m not blind
To the green you proudly boast.
You flick my Bic now I must find
Another light, but I am toast.
Just a plant you do no harm
Apart from harm we do ourselves.
Yet you are banned: a false alarm.
Scheduled 1, forever shelved.
Mexico’s proposal blesses cannabis for fun.
Americans resent that we may be the only one.
Foreign Government
10.30.20 – Knives
10.23.20 – Lagos Goes to La Streets
SARS—no not that one—
Brought Lagos to the streets.
Fuck daylong curfews.
8.20.20 – The Plot Thickens
The plot thickens.
Opposition: smitten
With ill.
Tea is spilled
And poisoned, too.
But by whom?
Is this a martyr attraction
Or serious distraction?
The Kremlin sends best wishes
As the plot thickens.
7.27.20 – 72 Hours
You have 72 hours
To pack up your things
Because diplomacy is dead
Between DC and Beijing.
7.22.20 – Houston Heat
The barrels swelled
As secrets flowed
Into the fires
The consulates stoked.
Chinese officials
Departed with fury.
They were told to leave.
They did so in hurry.
7.8.20 – Hong Kong, Meet China
China opened an office
In a hotel (it was once)
To monitor Hong Kong
(And squash resistance).
5.28.20 – Crackdown in Hong Kong
Communism continues to collapse
Onto the autonomous
City-state
Of Hong Kong.
People protesting this persecution
Suffer swift silencing of security.
Rubber stamps
Will further clamp
Democracy in China.
5.7.20 – The U.S. Wins Presidency in Iraq
Iraqis voted for a president
To fill a hole left in their government
Coincidentally the size and shape
Of the glorious United States.
4.27.20 – Free the Spaniards!
Spain,
The hardest hit European country,
Is set to be free!
Liberation
Comes in the form of open
Economy.
With their allies in Italy and France,
Spaniards
Will get the chance
To get haircuts and dance
In the streets once again.
This Is Just to Say 