Thursday, June 25, 2020

Congrats Grads 2020


Never in the history of academic achievement has any high school or college graduating class been so fucked. You are about to be thrust from your bedrooms into the closet of your bedrooms and as your caregivers lock that closet door, denying you any access to the greater world outside their doors, we invite you to kiss our ass and your future goodbye. 

You may feel cheated: denied a full and rich academic experience which would pry open your little minds and wrench open your hermetically sealed thighs. The chance to live outside your family homes in an idyllic oasis of binge drinking and gang bangs. 

My generation has guaranteed that your generation will be burdened with a historically huge generational debt which neither you, your children nor your children’s grandchildren will ever crawl out from under. But first, in all fairness, we have assured that each of you, personally, will have every opportunity to bury yourselves financially with just as expensive online schooling before the real estate rape called having your own place begins.

A two bedroom sheet rock shit house that is too small for your family and she’s pregnant again will only get smaller and with the payments missed as every once in a hundred years hurricane hundred years drought, hundred years pandemic all become annual if not semi-annual experiences. 

The mere utterance of the words “loan” and “forgiveness” in the same speech or article will be a felony. Everyone will be in debt and no one will outright own anything. The banks will own everything and everyone and robots already own the banks.

The future is stolen.

Don Arrup
Satire1

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Phase Two Reopening


Choose the appropriate caption

Brooklyn hairdressers welcome back client
Black Lingerie Matters initiation 
Not with our boyfriends, bitch!

Time for you annual physical
Here, let me vote for you
You’d be the perfect VP for Biden

Trump’s latest Covid cure
Try our new Yoga Machine!
This is all I can do to stop reading Satire1

Don Arrup
Satire1

Friday, June 19, 2020

Covid Spring Finis


Aunt J died today
High priestess of pancakes
And corn syrup disguised as sap
One hundred and thirty one years old
Cut down in her prime market position
Had long lost the bandana
But the pearl earrings and new do
Couldn’t hide mammy

Uncle B is in critical review
And not expected to survive the pandemic
Was it Black Lives Matters or #MeToo
That did them both in?
No, it’s just so long over due

Indian and Chinese troops
Are fighting each other 
With sticks and stones
On the border of No Where and Fuck You
Killing each other like cave men
High in the Himalayas 
In a pre-nuclear winter that’s outlasted spring

What? Good news? Phase Two!
Shorter lines and penetrate to purchase 
Goodbye grab and go life
Please cops be cool
People will get together
To party, protest or perform
Welcome, frightened suckers
This is your new norm

Don Arrup
Satire1