Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Poems For The Last Day Of School

BEHIND THE DESK

Nine months behind the desk
Outside the Sun shines
Preparing for nine lives
Behind the desk
Career promotion bills

Better than just the chair
Principal’s office, witness box, electric

Teach the children well
That Life is Hell
And the work is never done

Run outside today
If you are young
And still believe in fun

I’ll be here
Behind the desk
Waiting
For you to replace me


NO VACATE

My whole life has become a job
And I don’t like the boss
Never satisfied
Can’t mention raise
Or a day off

Endless depression
One-man recession
Hairline
Bottom line
Only my belt stretches

At least I can’t get fired
Or laid off
But I also can’t retire
Only expire
Dead end job me


SUCK ME

Humans
Second on the food chain
Elevated by mosquitoes
Since we’re the baldest blood bags

No fur or fuss
No scale or hide
To obstruct
The suck

They annoy us
To frustrate and inspire us
Keep us hungry

So much do they control us
We buzz about
Growing food
Working for food
Buying food

Take out
Drive in
Make out
Sin sin

It’s not a sucker
That is born every minute
But the to be sucked

Don Arrup
Satire1

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Congress Denies Moon Right To Eclipse

Congress interrupted its debate over raising the debt ceiling today to vote to deny the Moon the right to eclipse over North America both tonight and in the foreseeable future.

House Speaker Boehner
“We may have trashed the space program but we still own the Moon since President Richard Nixon colonized it on July 20th 1969. The American people spent billions of dollars to get those astronauts up there to civilize that rock and its only once a month when we can view the full benefit of our investment.”

House Minority Leader Pelosi
“I don’t think the Moon was as sound a purchase as Louisiana or Alaska but June is a romantic month and the height of the marriage season. Couples shouldn’t have to go off on a Honey Eclipse.”

Senate Majority Leader Reid
“Werewolves are citizens too and I don’t know what they are supposed to do if we didn’t act. Its time the Moon stopped trying to take a night off every time it slips outside our orbit of the Sun.”

Senate Minority Leader McConnell
“This wouldn’t even be an issue if we had a McDonald’s up there. I say we declare the Moon a tax free development zone and let the free market take care of the astronomy.”

President Obama
“I have signed the bill, it has become law, and I applaud Congress on their swift bi-partisan effort to close this solar-lunar loophole which has left our country in the dark so many times before. I invite all Americans under clear skies to enjoy their Moon in its full majesty and leave the crescents to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.”

“ Later this month I will propose a bill to Congress to extend summer indefinitely to help our country wean itself off heating oil and dependence on foreign powers, many of whom can’t even throw a respectable revolution.”

Don Arrup
Satire1