What it feels like dealing with SSD's bullshit rules
Image by Caters on One Big Photo
Content Warning: Profanity
(If you know me, you are unsurprised.)
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“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of
this stony rubbish?”
Like history, politics is an agreed-upon set of lies.
Sometimes policies that benefit people rise from the copious
bullshit proliferated by Congress.
Sometimes it’s hard for the lot that believes in trickle-down
theory and no billionaire left behind to uproot said policies once put in
place, but they’re damn well going to try.
Whether on the right or on the left, I don’t trust any of
them damn crooked vultures, but I vote blue because sometimes that bunch
manages to push through legislation to help the downtrodden a bit.
If you must utilize welfare programs, you quickly realize
they care more about catching a handful of fraudsters than benefiting those in
need. Everyone is guilty until proven otherwise.
I do not believe
that you give a single fuck
sugar-coated lies
144 words
Ornery Owl is Angry
Free-use image from Pixabay
Prompts
Prompt: Politics
Prompt: Write a work of prose incorporating the quote from T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, capped at 144 words.
I rolled with a Haibun, which is primarily prose finished with a Haiku, Senryu, or such. I feel that my snarky and profane Senryu adds a nasty icing to the distasteful cake, but if this format is a hardline no-no, the team at D'Verse Poets is welcome to eradicate my link.
Prompt: The photo at the top of the post.
The Icky, Sticky, Nit-Picky Legalese If You Please (Or Don't Please)
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You speak the truth. It's sad that we have to question the motives and sincerity of promises made. If only humanity was the center of it all. Thanks for this take on the prompt.
ReplyDeleteI quite agree. Thank you for visiting!
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