The Wizard leaves in his hot air balloon. He waves goodbye to the Munchkins, flying monkeys, Irish hoi polloi, QAnoners and Proud Boys.
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John Hawkins  · Sonnet: Twenty Years of Schooling
Sonnet: Twenty Years of Schoolin' and They Put You On the Day Shift*
by John Kendall Hawkins
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O, you could almost feel the heavy weight drop
from our shoulders as Big Mouth blew off high
into wind currents he did not control.
Please come back, some cried. I can't, said the pol,
I've risen and can't get down from the sky.
I love you, DJ, cried a knee-neck cop.
Magically He took Covid up with Him;
He dropped miracle vaccines by the score,
and we went back to a nation confused --
heartless, brainless, arthritic, child abused.
Jan Sixers stormed, yelled, Nancy, you're a whore!
FBI narcs dressed just like Tiny Tim.
What a mess we've made of democracy!
Caligula sideshow hypocrisy.
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The Bard from Duluth, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
(Article changed on Jul 29, 2021 at 4:30 PM EDT)
