politics and prose--proofread finally

So much has happened over the last two months, so much  left without commentary.  Surely I can do better than that.

Clinton Comey
Cozy Bear
Conway Bannon
A snuggling pair.

                                   An homage to what seemed like high art and wit 60 years ago:
                                            Trump Trump
                                            The magical suit
                                            The more you listen
                                            The more you toot.

Goldman Sachs
225K a pop
Advice benign
Why should she stop?
Over our head
Whatever she said
It's something we've heard
I'm so reassured.

                                            Perhaps we'd be better off with Mike Pence:
                                                  First agenda item defund planned parenthood
                                                  That'll teach them it's no errant good
                                                  Reparative therapy for sinful gays
                                                  We can turn them from their awful ways.
                                                  No beautiful wall with President Pence
                                                  Just a pretty but restrictive fence.

                          
Several months ago, I heard President Carter say that between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, he'd rather the Democratic candidate ran again Trump because Cruz is an ideologue and Trump is more "malleable."  It was a dear, sweet, half-formed thought.  It would be nice if only those influencing Trump were progressive, though Lewandowski, Manafort,, Conway, and Bannon were hardly promising).  And now the malleable Trump has surrounded himself with one advisor more frightening than the rest..  In the short-run, conspiracy theorist Gen Michael Flynn is probably the scariest.  In the longer run, Energy Secretary-nominee Rick Perrry (let's just hope he forgets to remember which agency he wants to eliminate) and all the anti-Environmentalists at EPA are even more alarming.  As someone who spent his entire life in public education, I can't help but cringe at Amway heiress Betsy DeVos,, who has never spent a day in public education and who hates neighborhood schools, as Secretary of Education. 

I can't help but enjoy the parade of self-deluded "moderate" Republicans making fools of themselves--Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Chris Christie (aka, the Whore of Trenton).  But what was with Al Gore, who was practically schoolgirl giddy after his meeting, as if he had gotten major concessions from Trump--just before Trump nominated his let's abolish the EPA candidate to head the EPA.


The last few weeks have been rather bumpy health-wise.  There've been a couple of previously unscheduled doctors' visits.  For three weeks, I've had a severe earache.  The first nurse practitioner said that it was the Eustachian tube, and we'd have to treat it through the nose, a treatment that causes nose bleeds, something I don't want since it leads to the ER and  balloon or tampon up the nose for several days.  A week later, another suggested treating it as a nasal infection.  We're tr\ying that without much success. And then there was a pinched nerve in the neck--also very painful.  We took two weeks off from chemo, trying not very successfully to balance constipation from the opioids and diarrhea from the chemo.  We had blood work and CT scans this week, and next week there is a consultation with Dr. Hashmi.

And so it goes.