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Daniel Finneran

The “Don’t Say Gay” Bill, Poeticized – A Political Poem

Two Saviors In Two Weeks: First Obama, and Now Christ Returns – A Political Poem From the incorrigible yet inimitable mind of Eugene Erigena–a man better born than reared. Eclipsed is the sun in the sunshine stateDarkened by clouds of conservative hateWhich haunt the land like a joyless specter,Draining the fruit of its orange nectar; …

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Two Saviors In Two Weeks: First Obama, and Now Christ Returns – A Political Poem

Two Saviors In Two Weeks: First Obama, and Now Christ Returns – A Political Poem A contribution from Eugene Erigena, by whose shameless inelegance, I’m frankly appalled. So soon! The month of April has arrived;How swift the seasonal pace is contrivedTo pass—yielding cruel winter to soft spring,For whose balmy advent, the angels singAn ethereal song …

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Ketanji Brown-Jackson, Our New Justice Supreme

Ketanji Brown-Jackson, Our New Justice Supreme The tree of government is triply branched, In three portions split, in three segments tranched: Nearest the root is where Congress is housed(Of whose brainless bugs, it should be deloused!) The branch Executive, next in esteemIs led by a dotard whom we must deemDiminished—If the case be made quite …

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Twitter has tweeted, whose board has now spoken: Musk owns the site, and all the world’s broken.

Twitter has tweeted, whose board has now spoken: Musk owns the site, and all the world’s broken. In the halcyon days of 2006(When, as I recall, fewer hereticsRoamed the earth), a bold company was conceived,In whose potential, everyone believed.It billed itself as the new public square,A place of untamed and unfettered air;A place, ‘round which, …

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Reflections on a 5-Day Water Fast (With Occasional Digressions Into Elizabethan Literature)

Reflections on a 5-Day Water Fast (With Occasional Digressions Into Elizabethan Literature) “You’re looking big!”, I was assured by a friendly young man with a nod of masculine approval, which, in the setting of an E-Sporta (née LA Fitness) gym, is to be received as a compliment than which none greater can be offered. I …

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