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This is the Last Straw – and Something About Sacred Buckets of Holistic Ice Water ****** predators, human smugglers Starvation in the Sudan, civil war in Syria, mass executions in China Journalists murdered almost everywhere Fashionable infanticide, homelessness Unemployment, urban terrorism Mass ****** school shootings, wildfires, racism An unstable national government Anti-Semitism, border desperation Riots, arson, ecclesiastical corruption **** alcoholism, historical cleansing Skinheads, abuse, Khardassianistas Volcanos, the death penalty, free verse Affluenza, Jerry Springer, The View Herbal tea, antifa, anti-antifa And the soul-sucking existential despair Of inspirational singer-songwriters: Nah, not a bit worried about plastic straws But I must go now; The Voices are telling me To pour a bucket of ice water over my head (As long as it’s not a plastic bucket)
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC
This is the Last Straw! And Some Inspirational Singer-Songwriters...
This is the Last Straw – and Something About Sacred Buckets of Holistic Ice Water ****** predators, human smugglers Starvation in the Sudan, civil war in Syria, mass executions in China Journalists murdered almost everywhere Fashionable infanticide, homelessness Unemployment, urban terrorism Mass ****** school shootings, wildfires, racism An unstable national government Anti-Semitism, border desperation Riots, arson, ecclesiastical corruption **** alcoholism, historical cleansing Skinheads, abuse, Khardassianistas Volcanos, the death penalty, free verse Affluenza, Jerry Springer, The View Herbal tea, antifa, anti-antifa And the soul-sucking existential despair Of inspirational singer-songwriters: Nah, not a bit worried about plastic straws But I must go now; The Voices are telling me To pour a bucket of ice water over my head (As long as it’s not a plastic bucket)
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Jul 27, 2018
Jul 27, 2018 at 3:58 PM UTC
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