songs without birds

when are we going to Moscow
Uncle Samya can you say
if you sell your new revolver
we can take the train today

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if some galaxies seem unfamiliar

others are the epitome of queer

recently a hole fifteen times its size

brought the Milky way down a peg or two

relatively for it was long ago

but the msg took its time to arrive

much can happen in just a billion years

hardly more than something else takes to blink

are there other universes out there

say beings beyond our reality

perching here on our tiny spiral arm

we Earthlings gaze up at stars in alarm

not as if the cosmos would do us harm

like the folks who go to work packing arms

shirtholders' meeting

invites only to the Davos game

sit-down stakes a cut in ages as

climate change Cassandra takes the stage

striking for fame

donkeys do the robot work till men

face extinction now who'll speak for them

Angry Thornbird plugging Virgin Trains

play it again

what the heck we're doing in a world

three score years & ten before the mast

owners get second helpings when they

step to the plate

nature with its glaciers on thaw

there in Switzerland the cuckoo clock

warns adulterers to flee a nest

foretold is all

stick yr ill-got where the finger points

frostbite not withstanding learn to cheap

skate if bored of snowboarding annoint

No-brainer king

penguin brief

line between greaseball & rape ain't too

fine how many shades of charcoal d’you

get that lipstick on his cheek or shame

just forget it Zimmer man don't break

shtum from snorting steed to shaken weed

characteristically he looks

daft you gotta be kidding go laugh

all the way to Hollywood & back

home where folks say he's a jolly good

fellow hurrah & #HimToo no schmuck

peddled far worse than the Juke of Pork

upskirt gaze all the way to the top

heads will roll the tail’s between his legs

no one’s guilty everyone’s to blame

suck yr lollipop the jury's game

Hunters with Pacino trailer

Palestinians grow up in vast

concentration camps but Jesus wept

precious few annihilated yet

metaphors are out you can’t compare

millions shuttled in on cattle trucks

greased of their chattels then stripped & gassed

better treatment’s meted out to lambs

ants are crushed with more compassion mad

dogs get rounded up by kinder hands

these days viruses are snoozed with smart

drugs & one day soon unsocial thoughts

clocked on apps will face the Judgment Bots

meanwhile Amazon’s Original

scuppers Holocaust revenge denial

Palestinians don’t touch that dial

more dark matter

scientists have blown another black

hole in space the place is full of them

looks as if we’ll have to think again

where will it end

some folks say in God & thereby have

life’s existence helpfully explained

handed back responsibility

acolytes spend

far less time deciding how & why

than debating which way best to serve

trusting data read on their behalf

by an elite

science doesn’t do away with faith

rather the reverse but every time

new discoveries are made we must

spike them with salt

smaller holes than this have boggled minds

bigger heads than mine mistaken size

filling blanks between our ears requires

using our eyes

hands up