Tom Brady and The Sports Gods

Nooooo!

What on earth is Brady thinking? Has he lost his mind?

He's agreed to grace the Madden cover...  Is he blind?

What about poor Rob Gronkowski?  What about the curse?

Now he's making jokes about it? That just makes things worse.

Sure!  It's all just fun and games... Until the sports gods strike.

Just the thought of what could happen makes my heart rate spike.

Please Tom, I am begging you to stop (although you scoff)

If I'm right and there are sports gods, you've just pissed 'em off.

#Resist - Count Me Out

(Courtesy of J.L. Thibeault)

Saturday will mark 100 days since Donald Trump

Took the Oath of Office, sending me into a slump.

I have lost the urge to rhyme the news.  I've grown depressed.

I cannot remember when I last felt so distressed.

Every day it's something else: another crazy Tweet,

Threatening the North Koreans with a naval fleet,

Presidential interviews that don't make any sense...

Trump's so unpredictable he makes our allies tense.

Trump supporters do not understand why I'm afraid.

95% of them still like the choice they made.

And it's no good arguing with them by using facts

If they aren't already worried by the way he acts.

Since Americans cannot agree on what is true

I don't know what good a demonstration's gonna do.

My plan is to wallow in my misery...  Alone

Hiding 'neath my blankets.  Sorry folks. You're on your own.

#ShePersisted

 

Jeff Sessions won't do, Liz insisted.

Admonished, still Warren persisted.

She got the word out.

By wielding their clout

The GOP Leaders assisted.

Amateur Hour in Washington

"Silencing" Liz Warren had the opposite effect;

Just another reason I'm beginning to suspect

That the folks in Washington who hold the reins of power

Run our government like some bad amateur hour.

I said I'd give Donald Trump's Administration time

And I've kept my promise... Not a single snarky rhyme.

Although we're just two weeks in - to me, it feels like years -

And, already, Donald Trump's the sum of my worst fears.

I have tried to understand...  I'm watching Fox and Friends,

Where they breathlessly report each tweet the Donald sends.

But I've started having trouble telling what is true.

Scary knowing it's where Trump gets Daily Briefings, too.

Haters Gonna Hate

There is great rejoicing here in each New England town;

Breathing's almost back to normal, heart rate's slowing down.

Soon the rally will be rolling through the Boston streets

Filled with fans who do not care if you think our team cheats.

We get why the fans of other teams must hate our Pats,

Celebrating (yet again) in new tee-shirts and hats.

If we knew there's nothing that our team will ever do

That could match the Patriots, I guess we'd hate them, too.

Sports gods' First Commandment is that fans ought not to gloat

But that rule's suspended when your quarterback's the GOAT.

And real fans of football, even those who curse our name,

Must admit the Patriots delivered quite a game...

Possibly the most amazing game I've ever seen

Since I started watching back at Super Bowl XIX.

We love Belichick and Brady - not for politics -

But because we want Lombardi trophy number 6.

Holding My Nose for Trump

 I am what the media's been calling "the elites:"

Living in my ivory tower on suburban streets,

College-educated, Massachusetts Democrat,

Who - though knowing Trump just won - is still processing that.

Watching as the demonstrators protest through the streets,

Rightly worried over Donald Trump's outrageous Tweets.

Hearing chants of "White Power" as racist bigots gloat, 

Knowing about half of those protesters didn't vote.

When we lose elections we must live with the result

(Unless you're prepared to join some anarchistic cult.)

Seeing electoral maps of red with specks of blue

Tells me that it's only fair to see what Trump will do.

I may be upset but I'm not arrogant enough

To ignore the 60 million for whom times are tough. 

I don't have to like it - and, believe me, I do not -

But that doesn't change the fact that Trump has earned his shot.

President-Elect Donald Trump

What is there to say?

I just never realized how mad the middle class

Must have been to vote for Trump, a total horse's ass.

Didn't understand how bad their lives have got to be

If they'd vote for someone as unqualified as he.

I cannot believe that they're all bigots - though there's some

And, though many lack degrees, that doesn't mean they're dumb.

Were they right that Washington, D.C. was broken? Yup.

System didn't work for them and so they blew it up.

For my fellow Clinton voters, still in states of shock,

Knowing Mitch McConnell said Republicans would block

Anything that Clinton tried, perhaps it's just as well...

Roll the dice and pray the country doesn't go to hell.