Executive Action on Immigration
GOP indignation
Bringing on the litigation
It’s Friday in the Greatest Nation
Prepare for violence
After Grand Jury silence
Following Ferguson defiance
That’s this week’s guidance
America’s Dad
They say he’s a cad
No response was bad
After all he had
In the Mid East nightmare:
Beheading by Isis– as per their dare
Israel mourned those killed in prayer
How much more can humanity bear?
I even feel sorry for Buffalo
Where I lived several years ago
Folks are used to a few feet of snow
But six feet at once is quite a blow
It seems like more than just a week gone by
Since I cried from lovely Madame Butterfly
But the daily news dramas keep the supply
Of disgust and anxiety at a constant high
Perhaps a museum will be this weekend’s tonic
Or an outdoor concert, ideally symphonic
A cultural escape from that which seems chronic
And ever present in this age electronic
Maybe the weekdays make us embrace
Those whom we love and that which we chase
On weekends time moves at a different pace
To restore ourselves and create more space
As next week’s news and dramas unfold
We’ll concern ourselves with what we are told
It will seem more important than that which is old
But what counts is what we do with that which we hold