Giving Thanks for Democracy

Inspired by William Shakespeare’s sonnet CXVI, it has a famous rhyming couplet at the end that inspired me to write three or four other parodies:

“If this be error and upon me prov’d

I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.”

Constitutional Sentiments and Impediments

Let us not divide the elemental tie that binds

or deny it and cut the fabric of democracy

which boggles and befuddles MAGA minds

as they wallow in delusion and conspiracy

Oh yes! Strength comes when we do our best

our United States Constitution will not be shaken

its worth is priceless, its truths are well taken

our Founding Fathers compromised without rest

Over time lies do not fool and truth will leak out

common sense grows by minutes days and weeks

through truth’s hourglass grains of truth seeks

inside the hour of truth justice comes no doubt

If I am mistaken allow me to drink my own puke

Let conspiracy theorists try to make their rebuke.

Literary Nook

Joey aka “Pepe Batbon” Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.