oh i’m not leaving but it appears you’ve died freedom ain’t in your name nor has it ever been but now the state of your decomposition has been realized by the smell of your rotting promises seems like all around the world your demise has been discovered so without any doubt we’ll need to start the wake before there’s nothing left to bury
we gave you our voice not to whisper about injustice but to declare loudly and act swiftly when the tenets of this nation are abused by fools and sympathizers of dictatorial rules of law it is time to act rise up and strike a blow for freedom
the dead man did not speak and some in the crowd questioned whether or not he was listening but people still came forth some protesting our state of continuous war others complained about global warming and how their lives had been changed forever more than a handful carried placards and screamed about abortion and women’s rights those concerned about civil rights for people of color residents and would-be-residents appeared only when the cameras were flashing and their voices we quickly muted by a series of rants on self-interest topics in the end the dead man did not speak nor show any true emotion which would be expected from a corpse so when the dead man was rotated and returned to the senate no one was really surprised
every now and then aunt bea get the giggles you know the kind folks get in church when a pastor inadvertently says something that can be and is taken completely the wrong way spreading muffled giggles throughout the congregation such was the case as aunt bea read about the stink bugs in the halls of congress during the government shutdown seems like the little pests were attracted to the place since no one was doing anything about them or anything else aunt bea said i wonder if they truly understand the gravity of this event
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