We showed up at the school with gunsAnd looked for books to banA girl held up this one banned bookSo snatched it from her hand Only in America One children’s book not banned is My Parents Open Carry, which celebrates gun-toting parents. There were 51 school shootings in the US last year. DM
Tag Archives: America
From the FCS Book of Little-Known Facts (ten thousand dollars)
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USA Selfie
I’m very proud of selfieSelfie that I tookOn my trip to USAScroll down and have a look Don MatthewsDecember 2022
The US is out of Control
The US is out of controlUnable to locate it’s soulDigging itself in a deepening holeThe country is out of control How did it get to into this state?Did it start at a year on a date?It was once a great nation with proud stars and stripesNow out of control (no debate) Don MatthewsNovember 2022
US Celebration. Call Me Old-Fashioned
Call me old-fashioned Disgusted I am how Americanised Australia has become Halloween rubbish from the profit-drivennation crossing our borders It started with complete misuse of the English language creeping in and Valentine’s Day in the 70’s Surprised and concerned parents allow childrento walk the streets and knock from door to door for Halloween My dadContinue reading “US Celebration. Call Me Old-Fashioned”
Poet Don Reporting on the Mickey Mouse Club and Annette Funicello
Poet Don writes his reports with quill and ink. He’s old school Do you remember TVThe Mickey Mouse ClubAnnette FunicelloRub-a-dub-a-dub? Don MatthewsNovember 2022
Hanging by a Thread
United States democracyIs hanging by a threadFounding fathers shaking heads Turning in graves (dead) Don MatthewsNovember 2022
USA is Falling. Apart
USA is fallingApart. Cause? Donald TCan it get back on it’s feet?We hope, we wait and see Don MatthewsNovember 2022
Gun-Mad America Drowns in Blood
Memorial Day Weekend 28-30 May Philidelphia – 15 dead Chicago – 6 dead Maryland – 4 dead Oklahoma – 1 dead New York – 2 dead Tampa, Memphis, Fresno, Atlanta – more dead Oklahoma – three days later 5 dead When will someone do something and end the carnage?
Fandango’s One Word Challenge – Machine
Write something incorporating the word ‘machine’. Should you accept, go forth. Show your creative juices I accept.Here goes…. ODE TO MACHINE I am a machineClunk clunk clunkI’m falling apartLosing my funk America seems to be losing it’s funk also Fan…… DM
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 