Making a Comeback

 

Have a pair of jeans I struggled getting past my hips...

Put them on this morning and - Voila! The zipper zips.

Now they even seem a little baggy 'round the butt;

Evidence of progress from the calories I've cut.

I've still got a lot to lose before I reach my goal

But at least I'm down to just a single belly roll.

Weight's been piling on for years. It's bound to take a while.

(Probably around the time that disco's back in style.

Thoughts and Prayers to Texas

Floods of Biblical proportions struck the Texas coast.

Rain's still falling; Harvey's back... It looks like Houston's toast.

They've got snakes and alligators swimming up the street.

Rainfall's being measured now in multiples of feet.

People in their thousands fled but have no place to go.

Everybody's offered help (including Mexico.)

If you'd like to join the effort, please donate on-line

Or text "HARVEY" and send to 909-99.

Noooo! Not Edelman.

I have got this thing for slot-receivers; guys like Jules.

Edelman, who's one of Brady's most essential tools,

Tore his ACL in Friday night's pre-season game.

Out before I even wore my jersey with his name.

It is a replacement for the one I have for Wes.

Welker left because he pissed off Belichick, I guess.

Up until I got their jerseys, both those men were fine.

Maybe I should not buy jerseys? Could this be a sign?

Even without Edelman, New England's looking good.

If nobody else gets injured I believe we should

Make it to another Super Bowl...  But this I swear;

I'll be much more careful of whose jersey that I wear.

The Labor Day Classic

 

I have not played any golf this summer...  Not one hole.

Haven't even swung a club nor given putts a roll.

But, I'm in a tournament - The Classic - Labor Day.

I'm a former trophy winner, so I have to play.

Do not get the wrong idea. It's a family thing.

I won't be the only person taking their first swing

At the dimpled ball when we are teeing off on 1.

At this invitational, we mostly play for fun.

We'll have lots of "swing oil" with us, ride around in carts,

And I'm sure that we'll play brilliantly - in fits and starts.

It's not really for the trophy that we golfers strive

But that thrilling feeling from one single perfect drive.

Haystacks of Hate

 

I think Donald Trump was right when he said he could shoot

Someone and his core supporters wouldn't give a hoot.

All the current polling data fills me with despair...

He just stabbed the country in the heart. They still don't care.

I was so naive to think that this would be the straw -

Charlottesville must break the camel's back, from what I saw.

Yet the polls are showing his supporters think Trump's great,

Even here in Massachusetts' mostly liberal state.

I was proud of Boston's counter-protest Saturday;

More than 40,000 people met the KKK

And the white supremacists who came to make a speech

Back, behind the barricades, and safely out of reach.

From the stage the neo-Nazis uttered not a squeak.

Not one chose to exercise their right to freely speak

But, they're all so brave on-line (or when they have a gun)

Now that there's a President in office like this one.

Dear Christopher Cantwell, et al.... Boo Hoo.

 

Lots of white supremacists are pretty darn upset

Because their identities are on the internet.

Now they're being ostracized by neighbors who've just learned

Where they went on their vacations, now that they've returned.

One guy, who's from Keene, New Hampshire (which is close to here)

Went on-line to bitch about it...  Even shed a tear.

Oh? Boo hoo, you racist cowards.  What a lot of nerve,
 I have zero sympathy... You got what you deserve.

What's Happening? Part 2

 

Every time I tell myself that things could not get worse

Donald Trump insists on demonstrating the reverse;

Drawing an equivalence between "alt-left" and right

Despite white supremacists' intentions to incite.

One does not wear body armor, helmets, jack-boots, guns,

Carry flaming torches, chanting slogans - Nazi ones' - 

Unless one is looking for a fight, it seems to me...

Yet, again, the President and I do not agree.

Trump believes the "alt-left" charged and then the two sides fought.

Neo-Nazis had the permits, those opposed did not.

"Thank you for your courage," tweets Grand Wizard David Duke.

Ku Klux Klan is happy? Great. I think I'm gonna puke.