Respiratory antics A touch of COPD And daily smoking Isn’t an artichoke

I hear voices above 70 decibels, All around me: At stem, stern, and beam reach Reading the same script and ad-libbing: The grinding voice The stern one The aw-shucks guy A thistle salad Projected and caught Seizing my audio processing

In some possible world, You make yourself whole, Taking hold of skeins of destiny. With agency to activate your actions, You pick up the phone — ear-based hair cells numerous and intact — And your brain matter lacks plaque. In this life tho’ You are just a self, By the by, Getting by.

Pink noise and industrial carpeting PLEASE The sales boys are loud and reverberating The sales girls here, not so. We are serving sound pollution — less so, quelling objections Queue operatic choruses offstage. Let absorbents deliver!

Let’s not rinse and repeat. Let many good things replace The random, rude, and crude. After all, we’re all new moon babies And survivors.

You’re opening up the China airways to Vaccinated tourists from elsewhere Your citizens are under-vaxxed, And they will roam over here and there & you don’t care. There’s paranoia about bringing in vaccinations from Europa and North America. But your COVID rates are up, And your hospitalizations are up. Open your central minds, Your looping solipsism is expendable. Import the vaccinations. And roll up your people’s sleeves,

Referral from United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack Ex-President Donald J Trump has been referred to the U.S. Justice Department for criminal charges. Which side are you on, girls and boys — which side are you on?

If you sold or gave away all the stuff you placed in an off-site storage locker, and saved that monthly fee, you could have more than enough for a final expense policy. Self-financing these end-of-life costs is illusory for people who don’t put money in savings accounts. How much are YOU spending on storage lockers, cable TV, and cellphone minutes each month?