Michael Swan: Great Leader
They’ll make a statue of you when you’re dead,
and birds will come and crap upon your head.
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Julia Griffin: Well Beganuary
These pious resolutions do no harm:
Wet February gains a whole new charm.
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Felicia Nimue Ackerman: Needing Reading
"If you could require President Trump
to read one book, what would it be?"
– The New York Times Book Review
I'd give Trump this requirement:
Read "The Joy of Retirement"!
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Julia Griffin: Frenemy of the People
I may have sounded fiddly on air,
But I’m a grounded middlionaire.
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Tony Peyser: The Highway Sign Said, CLEAN BATHROOM
This did catch my eye and I wanted to stop
But feared someone there would just hand me a mop.
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Alan Millichip: The Chosen Ones
We must slow the warming and save this place
As only a few can go into space.
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Terese Coe: Climate Crisis
Getting to nought
has to be fraught.
