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  • More Synchronized Chaos Poems

    More Synchronized Chaos Poems

    Synchronized Chaos has published more of my poetry

    Synchronized Chaos Publishes More of My Poems

    More Synchronized Chaos Poems

    President of the Smithsonian

    ?Synchronized Chaos Publishes New Poems

    Chaos Published

    On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM Cristina Deptula <synchchaos@gmail.com> wrote:

    Hi Jake, thank you for sending these to Synchronized Chaos! Appreciate the satire and the speculative bits of your work. We’ll publish in September!

    As always, please feel welcome to comment on pieces at synchchaos.com. We all appreciate feedback!

    Cristina

     

    President of the Smithsonian

    President Al Wilson

    Not content with taking.

    Over the Kennedy Center

     

    As part of the MAGA movement

    Culture war against the communists

    Radical left-wing Marxist

    Enemies of real America.

     

    Had described that the Smithsonian.

    Must reflect traditional American values.

     

    And avoid divisive or anti-American.

    Or anti-Christian propaganda.

     

    Therefore, he decreed,

    The African American Studies Museum

    Must close,

     

    The African Art Museum

    Must close.

    The American Indian Museum

    Must close.

     

    The Smithsonian must be color blind.

    And not to mention race or gender

    Slavery or the treatment of American Indians,

    And the whole Chinese Exclusion Act

    And internment of Japanese Americans

    Which was a good thing,

     

    Or the holocaust, for that matter.

    End anti-American, Anti-Christian,

    Anti-MAGA, cultural Marxism

    Radical lunatic left, CRT, DEI

    And WOKE programming.

    Throughout the Smithsonian.

     

    The African American museum holdings

    And the American Indian Museum

    And the African Art Museum

    Will be sold off at an auction.

     

    So the president decreed

    MAGA baby all the way

    RESTORING TRUTH IN AMERICAN HISTORY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order restoring truth and sanity to American history by revitalizing key cultural institutions and reversing the spread of divisive ideology.

    President Trump aims to ensure that the Smithsonian is an institution that sparks children’s imagination, celebrates American history and ingenuity, serves as a symbol to the world of American greatness, and makes America proud.

    The Order directs the Vice President, who is a member of the Smithsonian Board of Regents, to work to eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology from the Smithsonian and its museums, education and research centers, and the National Zoo.

    The Order directs the Administration to work with Congress to ensure that future Smithsonian appropriations: (1) prohibit funding for exhibits or programs that degrade shared American values, divide Americans by race, or promote ideologies inconsistent with Federal law; and (2) celebrate women’s achievements in the American Women’s History Museum and do not recognize men as women.

    The Vice President will work with congressional leaders to appoint members to the Smithsonian Board of Regents who are committed to advancing the celebration of America’s extraordinary heritage and progress.

    The Order also directs the Secretary of the Interior restore Federal parks, monuments, memorials, statues, markers, or similar properties that have been improperly removed or changed in the last five years to perpetuate a false revision of history or improperly minimize or disparage certain historical figures or events.

    In preparation for the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026, the Order directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete restorations and improvements to Independence Hall by that date.

    COMBATING CORROSIVE IDEOLOGY: In the last decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted effort to rewrite American history and force our nation to adopt a factually baseless ideology aimed at diminishing American achievement. President Trump is fighting back by reestablishing truth in the historical narrative and restoring Federal sites dedicated to American heritage.

    The prior administration pushed a divisive ideology that reconstrued America’s promotion of liberty as fundamentally flawed, infecting revered institutions like the Smithsonian and national parks with false narratives.

    At Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, the Biden Administration sponsored training by an organization that advocates for dismantling “Western foundations” and that taught Park Rangers that their racial identity should dictate how they present history to visitors.

    The Smithsonian Institution—once revered throughout the world as a symbol of American excellence—has recently promoted divisive ideology that American and Western values are harmful.

    The American Art Museum currently features an exhibit that purports to address how “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and claims that the United States has “used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.”

    The National Museum of African American History and Culture has proclaimed that “hard work,” “individualism,” and “the nuclear family” are aspects of “White culture.”

    The American Women’s History Museum plans to celebrate male athletes participating in women’s sports.

    CELEBRATING AMERICAN GREATNESS: President Trump is committed to honoring America’s extraordinary heritage and building a sense of national pride.

    President Trump signed an Executive Order on his first day in office to establish a task force to prepare for America’s 250th birthday.

    This Order also protects America’s monuments from vandalism and calls for construction of the National Garden of American Heroes.

    President Trump signed a memorandum ensuring Federal buildings reflect the timeless grandeur of traditional, classical architecture.

    By signing this Executive Order, President Trump is ensuring that American history is celebrated accurately, fairly, and with pride—honoring the remarkable progress, liberty, and ingenuity that define our great nation.

    Meanwhile, In The Real World, You Can Be Fired For Going To The Doctor

    Meanwhile

     In the real world

    You can be fired

    For going to the doctor

    .

    the worker’s bosses.

    Can refuse to let workers

    go to the appointment.

     

    As they are not required

    To grant them leave

    sick leave.

     

    Bad for the bottom line

    And they have no empathy

    For workers.

     

    Who are seen as

    Merely disposable, interchangeable

    Labor units of production.

     

    Who should be replaced

    By robots

    as soon as possible.

     

    People will be given a choice.

    Go to work, gravely ill.

    Or go to the EER.

    And six hours later

    Perhaps see an overwhelmed doctor

     

    And told me to follow up.

    With your primary care doctor.

    Who the hell knows.

    Who that is any more?

     

    You get the bill

    10,000 dollars,

    Pay up sucker!

     

    No money?

     

    Not my problem.

     

    And go back to find.

    You have been fired.

    For leaving or not showing

    Up for your shift.

     

    Doctors visit?

    That’s not my problem.

    You are going to die.

    So be it.

    We can find other workers.

    Or robots to take your place.

    Loser.

    President Al Wilson Reverses Course on Climate Change, From Denial to Action in the Wake of National Catastrophe

    With the destruction of most of Florida—including Mar-a-Lago—
    Monster storms ravaging Texas,
    And Los Angeles reduced to ash
    By earthquake and fire,

    President Al Wilson finally decided:
    Climate change is real.
    It is killing people—
    Especially in red states

    .
    The costs of rebuilding are horrific.
    The costs of doing nothing?
    Even worse.

    His advisors, once cautious, now urgent,
    Convinced him to embrace

     a rapid shift to green energy.
    Solar, wind, geothermal—no longer fringe,
    Now the backbone of survival.

    And beyond Earth,

    Plans accelerate for lunar and Martian colonies,
    With NASA’s bioregenerative greenhouses already in prototype.

    Underground cities, domed habitats—once sci-fi,
    Now contingency plans.

    Wilson must work with the world.
    Not just to lead,
    But to redeem.

    If he fails,
    And the world turns

    into a hellscape man created,

    History will remember him
    As the worst leader

     in human memory.

    But if he succeeds—
    If he reverses course,
    And actually solves the problem—

    He could be hailed
    As the savior of humanity.

    Doing something to change the future
    Is good politics.

    Continued climate denialism
    Is bad politics.

    And so,
    He reverses course.

    MAGA Dreams Come True

    President AL Wilson

    Had a dream

     

    The MAGA dream

    Coming true!

     

    This time will be different

    The internet and AI

    Will be used

    To make sure

     

    That MAGA rules

    And Christian values

    Take over.

     

    LGBT folks

    Back in the closet

    Where they beyond.

     

    Women’s rights curtailed

    Minorities deported.

    Media tamed

     

    The public distracted

    By the latest fake

    Celebrity scandal.

     

    The rich live very well

    With robot servants

    Self-driving vehicles

    Great health care.

     

    Maybe even cloned body parts

     

    But the poor

    Will barely live

    But who cares about them?

     

    MAGA, Baby

    The real scandal

     

    The taking over

    Of democracy

    By the oligarchs

     

    Not talked about.

    The secret camps

    Filled with people

     

    Who disappear.

    Climate change
    well the rich

    Can live on

    In walled off

    underground shelters.

     

    The rest of the public

    Who cares?

     

    And so it goes

    Democracy dies

    In broad daylight

    MAGA baby!

     

    Bad Craziness Rising

    Walking into the Cosmos Bar

    In Soi Cowboy in Bangkok

    The City of Lost Angels.

     

    That nefarious den

    of iniquity and evilness

    Twenty drinks too sober.

     

    I sat down at that bar

    Watching the mad scene unfold

    The naked ladies dancing.

    Drinking one scotch, one bourbon

    And one Singha beer.

    With my buddies.

     

    the whole motley

    Jack Daniels crew.

     

    Drinking with Mr. Baker Beam, Jim Beam, Mr. Blanton

    Mr. Booker, Elijah Craig, Jack Daniels

    George Dickel, Thomas H. Handy, Basil Haydens

    Henry McKenna, Old Mr. Forester, Mr. Jameson

    Mr. Nester, David Nichols, Benjamin Prichard,

    George T. Stagg, Colonel E.H. Taylor,

    Johny Walker, Evans Williams, William Larue Weller

    W.L. Weller Pappy Van Winkle, and his old  Grand Dad.

     

    The scent of bad craziness

    Hung in the air like

    A sexed-up durian fruit.

    an over-ripe mango girl

    Desperately seeking to have sex

    With wild, dressed-up bananas

     

    Running around with the Orange Man.

    Down the Street,

     

    the Moon, looks out on the mad scene

    Sniffs the air, saying,

    “Man, this is bad craziness”

     

    And runs away to join her lover the Sun

    In an orgy of drunken forgetfulness

     

    The Planet Mars, not amused, chases after the maiden Venus

    Under the cold, calculating glances of the Planet Pluto

     

    The Moon and the Sun rent a room in the Hotel Venus

    Across from the Jupiter All Night Diner

    Cosmic shit kickers, out for a night of Earth bashing

    The Earth trembles, shaken

    Moans with passion, and I awake

     

    Saying, that was bad craziness.

    Out there on the edge

    Between the inner me and the outer zone

     

    I went on down that road heading to hell

    Just as fast as I could drink it all down.

     

    And met me a lady, an outlaw lady on the far side.

    Money, power, and passion rolled up in a bundle

    Electric chemistry fills my head,

     

    Zapping my brain into demented muscles

    As I give in to the

    “bao bao ya yah Madi “ madness

    Bad craziness overwhelmed me.

     

    All around me.

    As paranoid, pulsating images scream out

    With mad passion, and demented noises

     

    The night turns ugly fast

    And very, very weird

    Weirdness in the air

    The scent of bad craziness.

     

    As the wild things come out to play.

    The moon is freaked out

    The Sun falls asleep in the gutter

     

    And I say to myself, I’m just another cosmic Guy

    On the loose, on the edge, on the wild side of things

     

    Watching the show unfold, I wonder,

    Is this all nothing but a cosmic drunken bum show?

     

    Who is the star, who is she – the naked maiden up there in the bar

    Black, leather jackets on stage naked visions of nightly lust

    Dancing with an attitude that could kill an elephant in heat

     

    And the Moon continues to dance across the evening sky

    Satisfied, allows mankind to sleep it off.

    Yet another night in the city of demented lunatic hell’s angels

     

    Finally, rest as the sun comes up casting its evil eye over the sleeping city

    Dispelling the bad craziness for a spell.

    Blasting the wild things back to hell.

     

    The masks come back on

    And I walk down the road

    Putting everything back into the box.

     

    Until the next night of bad craziness

    Let’s the wild beast within

    Escape its leash.

    Bad craziness rising yet again.

     

    America, Where Are Thou?

    I used to live in a place

    Called the United States of America

    A republic – the first and last hope of mankind

    The land of the free, the home of the brave

    The envy of the world

    The land of the American dream

     

    And now, I am afraid

    That the Star-Spangled Banner

    No longer flies

    Over the land of the brave

    And the home of the free.

     

    I wake up

    The red, white and blue

    Have been overwhelmed

     

    The dark forces of the red states

    Have overwhelmed the light of the blue states

    Have trounced the reason offered by the Blue States

     

    And the white forces

    Lie trembling in fear

     

    I tried to escape

    The darkling night

    The ever-glowing Orange alerts

     

    And escape somewhere

    The leader of the country

    The new uncrowned Empire

    Rules over us all

     

    Empire Triumphant

    Against all enemies

    The USA is number one

    We chant and scream

    And watch FOX TV

     

    As we march off to war

    The rest of the world

    Trembles in fear at our might

     

    We rule – we rock and roll, and are triumphant

    Against all enemies, dissenters, and foreigners

    The U.S. marches on to victory

     

    Freedom is on the march

    Liberation is at hand

    As the rich gather gleeful

    Contemplating the plunder of the state

     

    And the poor grow more desperate

    I cry out for the country that I have lost

     

    Whose soul has been lost

    And the end of the Republic

    For which I believed

    The empire has won

     

    Long Live the new Caesar

    Long Live the New American Empire

    Death to all its enemies

     

    As the dream fades into a nightmare

    I cry knowing that we have all lost

    The last best hope of mankind

     

    Lives buried in the ash heap of history

    Tyranny in the guise of Democracy

    Rules us all forever and ever

     

    And that flag

    The star-spangled banner

    Does not wave anymore

    Over the land of the free

    And the home of the brave

     

    Waiting For The Rapture

    While I was sitting on the crowded subway train

    Reading the corporate spoon-fed false propaganda news

     

    While commuting from my suburban townhouse

    Watching the lies masquerading as so-called truth news.

    I became consumed

    With dread, fear, and grief,

     

    The ever-growing fear that the terrorists

    Have won the war against terrorism.

    We’ve given our freedom away

     

    Dissent is un-American, anti-Christian,

     and unpatriotic.

     

    “Shut your face, you whiny leftist girlie man

    Communist, fascist, Marxist hoodlum punk

    Radical left-wing vermin, garbage person,

    Un-American terrorist supporting, Tersymps,

    Trans gendered, LGBTQ supporting,

     wimpy assed piece of crap”

     

    You are poisoning the pure blood

    of our great land

    Show us your papers, prepare to be deported,”

     

    Growls the voice of the One True American party

    The party that controls our life, rules our very existence

    And I want to escape these dark nightmarish times

     

    All around me, but there is nowhere to run

    Nowhere to hide anymore, no one cares

    What I think anyway.

     

    The terrorists lurk behind every door

    Who are the terrorists?

     

    They are not me

    I am a god-fearing white Christian man

    The terrorist does not go to my church

     

    He does not even believe in my God..

    He is a heretic, a Muslim fanatic

    A non-believer in Jesus, not like me

    They must be killed, exterminated

     

    All according to God’s plan

    This has been revealed

    to our Prophet in chief

     

    King Donald Trump

    , the invincible

     

    Must learn how to believe again

    I must reprogram myself

     

    God is watching us, or is it big Brother

    As the world descends into chaos

     

    And the Orange alerts

    grows brightly day by day

    I lay down to pray for the bombs to fall

    For the rapture to take me away

     

    Waiting for the end of existence

    Cleanse the world of its sins

    Bring on the rapture, sweat nuclear flames

     

    With these dismal thoughts

    I pick up my newspaper

     and look for something

     

    I will never find there.

    Truth is nothing but lies

    Lies promoted by the spinmeisters

    The true masters of the Universe.

     

    Integrity is nothing but a lie

    Nothing but a game.

    Slime oozes out

    of every corner of the media

     

    And so I remain consumed

     by dread, fear, and hatred.

    Waiting in vain for the rapture

     

    The dropping of the big one

    Waiting for the

     end of this period of chaos.

    It is all going according to plan

    The end of the era

     

    according to the ancient Mayan

    Revelations and the Koran.

     

    Bring on the rapture

    Let me meet my god

    If he exists.

     

    If not the hell ahead

    Is surely better than this hell

    We live in.

    One Night in Bombay, India

    bombay pictures
    bombay pictures

    One wild night in Bombay, India

    I walked into an evil bar 20 drinks too sober

    On the wicked wrong end of a Friday night booze run.

    On the bad side of the Moon over by where the Martian dudes

    Sat drinking their Martian whisky, ogling the Venus maidens.

    Leering at the earth women who were walking by

    Wearing skin-tight pants made their eyeballs hurt.

    I gave in to the spirit and went over to the Martian dudes

    And got drunk on the Martian madness, shot after shot

    Smoking some good old-fashioned Mars dust.

    And flew off to the planet Jupiter

    Just to have me some fun with a lady

    Who said she was from Saturn?

    I did not know she was from the planet Pluto.

    Until I woke up the next day, naked, under the alien Sun

    In jail on the Planet Alpha Centura, light-years from home,

    A million miles away, a thousand years in the future

    And I had no money, no honey, no way home.

    Still 20 drinks too sober, I just sat down in that jail

    And started drinking away my time

    Drinking fine cold assed Centurion wine

    and Pluto Whisky.

    One day I woke up

     and found me back in Bombay

    Standing outside that evil bar

    in the miasmic mist

    Over by the Martian whorehouse,

     down by the Gate of India

    And I walked up to

    the Saturn-Pluto babe

    And said,

    “Man, that was some bad shit

    Bad craziness.”

    Let’s do it again someday,

    she smiled, and I had my way

    Knew the day would come again.

    When I would be drinking with the Martians

    And something wicked my way would come

    Just another night of wicked fun

    On the wrong side of the Moon

    On the right night

    in the mean streets of Bombay.

    Just AN Unhinged Lunatic Howling AT THE Moon

    On a moonlit late-night
    I sat in the Cosmos Bar

    In Soi Cowboy

    Drinking drams of demented,

    fermented dream dew

    With one scotch, one bourbon. and one beer

    To chase it all down.

    Twenty drinks too sober.

    Just an unhinged lunatic
    Dreaming of howling

    at the super full moon.

    Watching the world walk by
    Looking at all the fine-looking babes
    Walking by the street
    Thinking wild, erotic thoughts
    Of endless wild libertine passions.

    When into the bar
    Walked the most beautiful women
    In the Universe.
    So wild, so free
    So wonderfully alive.

    I did not know what to do
    As this carnal, deprave

    lustful vision of delight

    Sauntered through the bar
    In a skin-tight leather pants

    Looked so fine
    That my eyeballs hurt

    And finally

     I had to say something
    So I gathered up

    My manly courage

    And walked up to her
    And she looked at me

    And instantly

    Bewitched my soul
    Mesmerizing me

    With a devilish grin.

    I lost all reason
    And became a raving lunatic
    Unhinged lunatic
    Howling at the moon.

    Foaming at the mouth
    A wild, free werewolf
    Howling at the lunatic light
    Of the full Moon

    Poetry from Jake Cosmos Aller (one of nine poems)

     God’s Confession

    I was sitting alone

    In a god-forsaken bar

    the Cosmos Bar in Soi Cowboy

    Bangkok, Thailand

    On the lunatic fringes of society

    Twenty drinks too sober

    In the ass end of

    a Friday night booze binge

    On the bad part of town

     

    Over by railroad tracks

    Heading to hell

     

    As fast as I could drank it down

    Enjoying my lonely drink

    Drinking by my lonesome self

    With my partners Jimmy Bean, Jack Daniels, The Walker brotherEvan Williams And his old Granddad

    Just drinking one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer

    and hanging with Jack Daniel’s gentlemen’s club

     

    A crazed bum

    With a thousand-year stare

    Walks up to me

    He begins

    Muttering to himself

    Nutty nonsense

    Crazy words

    In a lunatic’s voice

     

    He had the look

    Of one possessed

    By his demons

    Only he can see

    Or hear

     

    Possessed by a secret knowledge

    Only he knew

    Despite myself

    I was fascinated

    By this lunatic’s tale

     

    So I stopped him

     

    And said

    “Say, crazy little Dude!

    So what’s your game, Anyway?”

     

    The short little dude

    Stopped his insane prattle

    Starting at me

    With that thousand-year-old stare

     

    Just another washed-up lunatic

    Too many drugs

    His mind blown away

    Down too many rabbit holes

    Too many bad nights

    On the wrong side of life

    An ACID causality

    From the 60s

     

    Been down so long

    It looks like up to him

     

    He looked at me

    And proclaimed his story

    He reared up

     

    And filled up the room

    And lifted the bar

    On his finger

     

    And stared down at me

    From the sky

     

    And said

    “Since you asked

    I am Allah

    The Alpha and Omega

    Ganesh

    Kali

    Jupiter

    Jehovah

    Shiva

    Zeus

    And a billion other names

     

    The real deal

    The original dude of dudes

    The Sultan of Swing

    God of hosts

    And the father of that Jesus dude

     

    But no one knows me

    Any more

    No one cares

    They think

    I am irrelevant

    They think I am dead

     

    They think I am a fairy tale

    From some olden, ancient time

    That my work is done

     

    I looked at him

    Carefully now

    And what did I see

    An old man

    With that lunatic look

    But there was something else

    He was crazy

    Sure.

     

    Yeah

    Out there

    Bat sh…crazy

    looney tunes

     

    But perhaps

    he was the real deal

    I mean why not

    In this materialistic age

    Why would

    God not be a wandering

    lunatic

    wandering around loose

     

    Talking to low lives like me

    In a bar

    On the highway to hell

     

    So I looked at him

    And invited him to share

    His tale of cosmic woe

     

    God tells me

    “Well, it’s like this

    Many a year ago

    People believed in me

    But one day

    They quit believing in me

    they moved on

    And they went on without me

     

    As they left me

    My powers got weaker and weaker

    And so eventually

    I became

    What you see today

    A broken-down drunk

    Hanging out

    Looking for a handout

    Looking for some company

    Or at least a free dinner”

     

    And he laughed

    and laughed

     

    And I looked at him

    And saw the beginnings of the end

    And the ends of the beginnings

     

    I saw a million planets

    Flash byTrillions of people

    Thinking all at once

    Thoughts filled my head

    Lights flashed

     

    And I knew

    He was telling the truth

     

    But it did not matter

    In this day and age

    Of materialism

    God has no role

    God is truly dead

     

    And so I bought him a drink

    And walked out of the bar

    still twenty drinks too sober

     

    Profoundly saddened

    From what I had seen

    God was dead

    And we had all conspired

    To kill him

    Long live God

     

    The Last Race  The Last Race 

     

    An Aging car racer

    Racing in his last race

    Driving too fast

     

    Around the curve

    Blowing himself up

     

    In a fiery crash

    The rating

    score In his last race. 

     

    Association of the Living Dead India 

     

    In India,

    several years ago

    A man falsely claimed his brother

    Was dead

    so he could inherit the family assets,

     

     The dead brother

    had to fight

    To be declared legally

    not dead

    And contest the will

    . “The Association of the Living Dead”

    Became a movement

    Of thousands of people.

     

    For in India

    apparently,

    It was a thing to declare

    Your relative is dead.

     

    I never thought

    That the US would have

    To form their own

    “The Association of the Living Dead”

    Until this week.

     

    The cyber ninjas

    In their infamous

    non-forensic audit

    In the 2016 Arizona election

    Claimed that hundreds of dead people

    Had voted.

     

    They gave their list

    of the alleged dead voters

    To the attorney general

    Who contacted all 300 dead people

    Found that 299 of the 300 were in fact

    Not dead

     

    and none of them knew

    That unnamed political operative

    We’re claiming

    that they were dead.

     

    The one dead voter

    was alive when he voted early.

     

    But died before election day

    Thus making his vote not valid

    But there was no fraud involved

    As he was alive when he voted.

     

    Perhaps they need to form

    The “association of the living dead”

    To fight for the right

    of the non-dead people

     

    To continue to vote

    and receive other government benefits?

    What a sad commentary

    On the farcical nature

    Of contemporary life

    In these disunited States of America. 

    Secret Gateways Photo Challenge 

    There are secret gateways

    Portals to other dimensions

    All around us

    Hidden deep in the mountains. 

     

    Leading to other worlds

    Other times and places

    Where time runs differently

    And humans are unknown. 

     

    The Lonely Mother Duck

    Watched her eggs hatch

    In the nest by the lake. 

    She was worried

    About the foxes, wolves

    Lions and tigers 

    That was all around.

    Ever since the humans

    All disappeared. 

     The Secret Fly Drone  

     

    The fly on the wallpaper

    In the CIA director’s office

    Was not a real fly

     

    He was an enemy spy drone

    Secretly controlled remotely

    Listening to all

    the secret conversations

     

    Until the director smashed him

    With a flyswatter

    Then realized that it was a spy fly

    He had dispatched to bug hell.

    Synchronized Chaos Magazine

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    Medium

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  • April 8, 2022 Poems

    April 8, 2022 Poems

    April 8th, 2022 Poems

    Welcome to Cosmos’ annual April Poetry Madness.  Last year I wrote 300 poems in one month, this year I will write less, as that was just way too much to deal with.

    Today’s poems will be April 8th poems, followed by April 9th to 15th  in separate postings, one per day.

    I will post them as I write them, and try to update them every day or so.  I will finish May 1 US time, as that will still be April 30 KST (Korea, where I currently reside.)  Most will be G rated but a few may not be. I will try to label those or not post them. The topics will be wherever my mad muse takes me, and I usually don’t have a clue until I write them.

    I will post here the poems I wrote based on prompts from NaPoWriMo, (the poetry’s world’s equivalence to the annual NaNoWriMo novel competition which I will enter again in November). Writers’ com’s Dew Drop-in, Poetry Super-highway, Writers Digest, and occasionally other prompts. I will write a few more each day, but not post them, as I need to build up more “unpublished poems” for future submissions.

    Daily posting All poetry, Anchor, this blog, FB, Medium, PSH, Wattpad, Writing com, and Writer’s Digest.

    I will post each poem, followed by the prompt, occasional author and notes, and photos. I will convert it to a podcast later, available on anchor, radio public, blog radio, Spotify, and elsewhere under the name “The World According to Cosmos: or Jake Cosmos Aller. See the following for more information on the podcasts.

    Podcast update

    At the end of the month, I will add up the total poems written this month, total posted, total not-posted, and total YTD.

    I have found that this annual exercise has been a big help in helping me hone my craft as I am entirely self-taught except for having taken the Mod Po class several times. It helps me stretch my poetic muscles. It has been a lot of fun but a challenge.

    Here are links to my previous April poems

    Ten Best April 2021 Poems

    April 25 to April 30 2021Poems

    April 16 to April 20 2021 Poems

    April 16 to April 20 2021 Poems

    April 10 to April 14 2021 Poems

    April 1 to April 5 Poems

    April 6 to April 9 Cosmos’s Poetry 

    April 6 to April 9 Cosmos’s Poetry 

    April 6 to April 9 Cosmos’s Poetry

     Cosmos’s 2020 April Poetry Part One

    Cosmos’s 2020 April Poetry Part One

    April 2019 Poems

    April 20 to April 25th 2021 Poems

    2022 April Poetry Madness April 1 to 3 poems

    April 5 2022, Poems

    April 4th 2022, Poems

    April 6th, 2022 Poems

    April 7th Poems

    Begin Poems

    Big Daddy In the Cosmos Bar NaPoWriMo

    lover kissing
    lovers kissing

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Big Daddy, was the man
    who always had a plan.

    He was an ex-University of Arkansas
    and Dallas cowboy player
    who had worked for the CIA

    The agency fired him
    for murdering enemies of the state
    at home in contravention of agency rules,

    but they retained
    his services from time to time.
    He supplemented his CIA payments
    And bar income from money laundering,
    drug smuggling, human smuggling
    and other assorted crimes, big and small.

    Big Daddy had lots of enemies
    Many people wanted him dead
    Relatives of his many victims
    Of the covert wars, he waged
    On behalf of his nation.

    He had moved to Bangkok, Thailand
    after running a bar and grill
    in Little Rock for a few years,

    He opened the Cosmos Bar
    With the assistance of his manager.
    Kuhn Lek, and her uncle
    The police chief and his cousin
    The biggest drug kingpin
    In the northern triangle.

    The Cosmos Bar
    Became world-famous
    The spot to go to in Bangkok.

    Located in Soi Cowboy
    It was an after-hours club
    Secretly owned by the Thai police,

    One of the few places
    That served alcohol 24/7.

    It was filled with
    Criminals, drug dealers, government agents
    Journalists, prostitutes, pimps,
    spies, counter-spies, sex tourists,

    tourists, undercover cops,
    and assorted other low-lives,
    From all over the known world.

    Had the best looking woman
    The best-looking travesties too,
    The best beer, wine, and liquor list
    In the city,
    And the best burgers in town.

    It looked like the Bar in Star Wars
    Filled with probable human life forms
    And perhaps a space alien or two.

    Trouble Found Big Daddy

    He was hoping to stay out of trouble
    But one day trouble found him.

    One day a mysterious Korean woman
    Came into the bar asking for him
    By his universal nickname
    “Big Daddy”

    Maria Lee was a Korean-American
    Drop-dead gorgeous woman
    Who was on the lam,
    from her rich Korean husband.

    She had one question for Big Daddy.

    “The word in the Korean community
    is that you are a man
    Who knows how to launder money.

    Can you launder 50 million dollars?”

    “Hmm for a fee.”

    “What’s the fee?”

    “A night of wild sex with you.”

    “Done, but only after the deed is done.”

    She smiled sweetly.

    He called his underworld contacts
    and they laundered the 50 million dollars
    and he gave her the bank receipt.
    He had parked the money
    in a Cayman Islands account.

    That night
    she honored her
    agreement with Big Daddy.

    The next morning
    while drinking his cup of coffee,
    She revealed that she had poisoned him

    because she did not want anyone to know
    about the transaction
    and her affair with Big Daddy.

    She smiled,

    “Thanks, Big Daddy,
    I liked last night,
    You are a real stud, Big Daddy,
    Perhaps that is why you are called, ‘Big Daddy’

    But hey it is nothing personal, Big Daddy.”
    After all,
    it was just a business deal
    in the end.

    And that was
    how trouble found Big Daddy.

    Today’s prompt comes to us from this list of “all-time favorite writing prompts.” It asks you to name your alter-ego, and then describe him/her in detail. Then write in your alter-ego’s voice. Maybe your alter-ego is a streetwise detective, a superhero, or a very small goldfinch. Whoever or whatever your alternate self may be, I hope this prompt lets you stretch both your writing skills and your self-knowledge.

    Watching Cats Fight in Incheon, NaPoWriMo

    cat jpg
    cat jpg

    Watching two cats
    Fighting alongside the sidewalk
    In suburban Incheon New Airport Town.

    Completely indifferent
    To the humans walking around them
    And the humans
    were indifferent to the cats.

    As they stood there fighting
    And screeching at each other.

    One orange one
    One half-black-half-white one
    Both middle age in cat years

    As I sat there watching the cats
    getting into it, I wondered
    what they were arguing about?

    But since I don’t speak cat
    I didn’t know
    All I know is they were screeching at each other
    And almost looked like they were
    about to attack each other

    But one cat backed down
    As the other cat stood their proverbial ground
    If they were humans,
    One would have pulled out a knife, or a gun
    And someone would have been killed

    But being mere cats
    They stared at each other
    And walked away.

    But they kept glancing at each other
    So, I knew the fight was not over
    Merely postponed until a later hour.

    Cats truly are the aliens
    Who live among us humans
    Or perhaps we are the aliens
    Who live among the cats?

    Creature—write a poem in the voice of some living creature that is not human.

    Death of Big Daddy PSH

    After Big Daddy was assassinated in Bangkok
    His adult children arranged for his remains
    To be brought back for a funeral
    In his hometown of Little Rock.

    Big Daddy, aka Sam Adams
    was the man
    who always had a plan.

    He was an ex-University of Arkansas
    and Dallas cowboy player
    who had worked for the CIA

    The agency fired him
    for murdering enemies of the state
    at home in contravention of agency rules,

    but they retained
    his services
    from time to time.

    After running a bar and grill
    In Little Rock for a few years
    He moved to Bangkok, Thailand

    Where he opened the Cosmos Bar
    With the assistance of his manager.
    Kuhn Lek, and her uncle.

    The police chief and his cousin
    The biggest drug kingpin
    In the northern triangle.

    He supplemented his CIA payments
    and bar income from money laundering,
    drug smuggling, human smuggling
    and other assorted crimes, big and small.

    Big Daddy had lots of enemies
    Many people wanted him dead
    Relatives of his many victims
    Of the covert wars, he waged
    On behalf of his nation.

    He was hoping to stay out of trouble
    But one day trouble found him.

    Big Daddy’s Funeral

    The funeral was a big affair
    Lots of people came to the funeral
    Lots of people came to make sure
    That SOB was indeed dead.

    His children were hoping
    To find out where his rumored
    Millions of dollars were located.

    Hoping that they could gain access
    To the ill-gotten gains
    Of his life of crime.

    Big Daddy’s lawyer
    Told them that his account info
    Was one of many secrets
    He had taken to his grave.

    But they were now the owners
    Of the Cosmos Club
    Which was worth
    millions of dollars.

    His business partners were willing
    To continue to run it
    And send them 100 K each
    For the year in royalties

    Provided that they did not
    Interfere in the management
    Of the Cosmos Club.

    They all agreed to the arrangement
    And hired the lawyer
    To track down the money.

    The money was never found.
    For his business partners
    Had located it
    And looted the account
    Before anyone could find out.

    April 8, 2022: Poetry Writing Prompt – Duane L Herrmann

    This poetry writing prompt submitted by Duane L Herrmann:

    “As the casket was lowered into the ground, the four adult children stood dry-eyed and looked at each other with knowing stares.”
    Who was in the casket?
    What did they know?
    Did anyone else know?
    What had the deceased done to them?
    What will or did they do in response?

    If you write a poem from this prompt, post it as a comment underneath the prompt in the Poetry Super Highway Facebook Group.
    #napowrimo #poetry

    The Fog Local Gems

    Fog in SF
    Fog in SF

    Note: one of my oldest poems was written in 1972 when I was 16. Revised as a Cherita.

     

     

     

    The Fog

    The Fog
    Rolls in and in.

    And on forever
    Till the end of time
    Past where once stood proud San-San.

    Now there is nothing.

    But bones rolling in
    Forever and ever.

    Rotting in the blue sunlight
    Turning in the yellow clouds
    filling the air

    With the stench

    The fear
    The feel

    Of a people forever dead
    Merging with the fog
    Filling the air.

    The fog rolls in and in

    Laughing as the Sun
    Sinks into the purple coated sky

    Above the encrusted sky of time
    With the people of the earth
    Just another dead civilization.

    Day 8: A Layer of Fog

    The End

  • Jack Daniels’s Failed Intervention

    Jack Daniels’s Failed Intervention

    More Journal of Expressive Writing Publication

    Two Drops of Ink Update

    Jack Daniels’s Failed Intervention

    Unlikely Stories will publish my poem, “Jack Daniels Intervention” in their November edition.

    Dear Jake,

    Thank you for your continuing submissions to Unlikely Stories Mark V! I loved “Jack Daniels’s Failed Intervention” and would be delighted to publish it. We aim to run this piece sometime in the week of November 14-20.

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    If you tweet about publication, tag us at @USDotOrg, and we’ll retweet.
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    And please consider becoming a patron at http://www.patreon.com/unlikelystories, and/or disseminating that link.

    Also, in keeping with our activist mission, we’re asking contributors to recommend a charity. The charity will be mentioned at the end of your bio, like this: “Jake recommends [charity name and link].”

    Charities can be any organization, anywhere in the world, that does not operate for profit. A charity does not need to be a registered non-profit. For example, another press or magazine that deliberately operates at a loss is fine. This program is of course voluntary. Please do contact me with any questions.

    Thanks again,
    Jonathan

    Jack Daniel’s failed Intervention

    jack daniels

     

     

     

    Sam Adams
    Was drinking alone
    In the infamous Cosmos Bar,
    In Bangkok,
    The city of lost angels.
    Twenty drinks too sober

    He barely noticed
    The naked ladies
    Dancing on the stage.
    On his table

    He had a bottle of Jack Daniels
    Along with a bottle of Johnny Walker
    And five bottles of Singha beer.

    Drinking his way to hell
    Following the advice
    Of the old song

    “One bourbon, one scotch
    And one beer.

    one scotch, one bourbon, one beer

    That played on
    In his lonely head,

    This was his usual
    Friday night routine
    Just another pathetic loser
    Drinking in the Cosmos bar.

    The barmaids
    Left him alone
    He never paid them
    No attention anymore.

    He was there
    To make love
    to his booze bottles,
    the booze bottles,
    were his only friends.

    That night,
    About 0 dark hundred
    He looked up.

    Saw the bottle of Jack Daniels
    Had somehow transformed
    Into that of a younger version
    Of Sam Adams.

    The figure announced,
    That he was the spirit
    Of Jack Daniels

    And had a message
    For Sam Adams.

    “Master,
    It is not my place
    To complain

    But you are
    Drinking a bit too much.
    Twenty drinks a night

    For the last few weeks,
    Don’t you think?

    You are so far gone
    You don’t even notice
    The naked ladies
    Anymore.

    I want you
    To quit
    This one-way ride
    Down the hell hole.

    Put down the bottle
    Go home with Khun Lek
    Who will help you forget
    What you need to forget.

    If you continue drinking tonight,
    The only destination is death

    My friend the Grim Reaper
    Has your ticket
    Ready for redemption.
    So, stop drinking “

    Soon the other bottles
    In front of him

    Started talking to him
    Pleading with him
    To just stop drinking.

    He stared out
    Convince he was going mad
    The barmaids stared
    At the unholy sight,

    As the bottles in the room
    All came alive,
    And began chasing Sam,

    Out into the busy street
    Where a bus ran him over,
    Died on the spot.

    Thus ended Sam Adams’s
    Last binge
    In the city of lost angels.

    Note: There is a real Cosmos Bar in Bangkok, at least there was back in the day.  This is based on a writing com prompt to write a personification poem about the feelings of an inanimate object, I chose a bottle of Jack Daniels.

    I submitted the following as well, but there were not published.

    The Shrimp Talkback
    Gov Abbot Calls for Freedom of Choice In Making Medical Decisions = Irony Meters Blow A Gasket  Found Poem with snarky commentary
    Governor Abbot, What Is Wrong with You? COVID
    9-11 Evil

    the Shrimp Talkback

    shrimp
    shrimp

     

     

     

     

     

    Sam Adams and friends
    Were enjoying a shrimp feast,
    Watching the live shrimp
    Being roasted
    Waiting to enjoy eating them.

    The head shrimp jump out of the pot
    Followed by other shrimp
    Soon thousands of shrimp
    Were everywhere.

    The head shrimp spoke up
    “Humans
    What gives you the right
    To kill us,
    To eat us,
    To burn us alive?

    Perhaps we should kill you
    Tear you apart
    And eat you?

    Would you like that
    You human scumbags?”

    The shrimp surrounded the humans
    Swarming all over them
    Killing them.

    Burning them
    As they overturn
    The flaming pots

    Biting them
    Smothering them
    In hot sauce
    As they eat them.

    Screaming
    “Death to all humans.”

    The head Shrimp finally said,
    Time to go
    We are so out of here.

    The shrimp all ran out the door
    And back into the shrimp farm waters.

    The firefighters
    Find the charred remains
    Of the humans.

    Now just charred skin and bones,
    Wondering how they died.

    The shrimp in the pound
    Lookout,
    Wondering if they should attack
    But decide they had eaten
    Enough human meat.
    For the evening.

    Gov Abbot Calls for Freedom of Choice in Making Medical Decisions = Irony Meters Blow a Gasket -found poem

    governor abbot
    FILE PHOTO: Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks at the annual National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Dallas, Texas, U.S., May 4, 2018. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson/File Photo

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Apparently,
    Rhetorical consistency
    Is about as high
    On Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s agenda

    As ensuring his constituents
    Have a working power grid,
    Are safe in their schools
    And can easily vote.

    On Thursday,
    the Republican governor
    fired off a tweet,

    blasting President Joe Biden’s announcement,
    of new requirements for large employers,
    to ensure workers either get vaccinated
    or face weekly COVID-19 tests.

    Calling the mandate
    an “assault on private businesses,”

    Abbott pledged that Texas,
    or its GOP leadership anyway,
    was working to thwart Biden’s “power grab.”

    And here’s where the tragicomic
    part comes in.

    “I issued an Executive Order
    protecting Texans’
    right to choose
    whether they get the COVID vaccine

    Added it to the special session agenda,”
    If you’ve been paying attention,
    you’re then aware
    that Abbott’s tweet trumpeting
    Texans’ right
    to make individual health choices,
    comes days after he signed a law.
    banning the majority
    of abortions in the state.

    Abbott is talking
    out both sides of his mouth
    when it comes to matters of choice.”

    Comment:

    The irony meters
    Have blown a gasket
    You talk about the right to choose
    The right to not get vaccinated
    Or wear a mask.

    You know that is the right
    To infect everyone else
    Including you
    You and your family could die.

    Because of idiots
    Who refuse to get a vaccination
    Or wear a mask.

    The blood is on your hands
    Own it.

    The corona ghosts
    Are watching you.

    Governor Abbot, what is Wrong with You?

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Governor.
    I want to ask you a very simple question
    about your opposition to mass mandates
    and vaccination requirements,
    and your saying people have a right to choose
    not to get vaccinated, or wear a mask.

    what is wrong with you?
    Right now,

    in this country,
    COVID is spreading out of control/

    especially in Texas and Florida,
    and a few other states
    where the vaccination rate is fairly low
    and people have abandoned wearing masks.

    People are dying
    Because so many people
    Refuse to do the right thing.

    Get a vaccine
    Wear a mask

    Avoid crowds
    If everyone did their part
    The pandemic would be soon over.

    But if people
    Continue to follow your guidance
    Acting like the self-centered scumbag
    That we now see you are,

    Thousands more will die
    The economy will not re-open
    Travel will not resume.

    Perhaps more dangerous variants
    Will emerge.

    And it is all on you
    Governor Abbot.

    Just man up,
    Admit you were wrong
    Encourage people to shut up.

    Get the vaccine
    And save your state
    And country.

    The corona ghosts
    Are watching you!

    Evil

     

     

     

     

    Evil in this world
    lurks in the deadliest places.
    Evil came to town on 911
    the day that evil swept over the world

    a true Black Swan event
    that transformed everything
    splitting the world into a pre-9-11 world
    and a post 9-11 world
    unleashing the War on Terror, the wars in Afghanistan, the wars in Iraq, the war in Libya, the war in Syria, the wars in Africa, the horrors of ISIS, the horrors of the Taliban resurgent, the horrors of Al Qaeda and all the rest of the Muslim terrorists,  the war in the streets of any big city, the war on Muslims, the war on Christians, the war on Jews, the apartheid in Palestine, the wars on dissent at home, the Arab Spring

    so many things can be traced
    to the impact of 9/11
    one of the most unlikely events
    of recent history

    that transformed
    everything

    yes there was a pre-9-11 world
    hard to imagine now
    and a post 9-11 worldwide police state
    on steroids

    lost democracy at home
    and abroad
    we are  still coping

    with the damages unleashed
    by the evil plane bombers
    fulfilling their mad desires
    their dictates from their mad God

    transforming the world
    unleashing evil
    on the once innocent world.

    the End