By Ernie McCray
Excuse my French,
as they say,
but it just seems as though
everything today
is ass-backwards.
In so many ways.
And that puts us in a bind,
considering that we’ve got a man
who, in a very short time,
will be taking us through whatever
is going to go down
down the line,
a man totally without
an open mind
which is the kind of mind
that will be much needed
during these problematic times,
a man who would win
a “Getting-Things-Ass-backwards-Contest”
by a landslide
because he just can’t seem
to do anything right.
I mean he hugs the flag
like it’s the Homecoming Queen.
He rallied a mob
that stormed the Capitol
trying to shut our government down
and because we citizens
have also become accustomed to doing things ass-backwards
we let him get away clean,
and in return for our kindness
he’s promised
to pardon those who were arrested
for their participation in this treasonous situation
and set the FBI on those
who took part in the investigation
of the transgressions.
Could there be anything more ass-backwards
than actions
such as these,
or more contrary
than actions he’s already put in place
like choosing a man
to head the Department of Health
who doesn’t believe in vaccines
and spins tales of burying bears
and beheading whales,
instead of selecting someone
who has experience in
taking on endemics and pandemics
and keeping citizens
hearty and hale.
And what about
our airmen and airwomen and sailors and troops,
especially those right out of high school,
who we send around the world
to settle disputes
because human beings
have chosen armed conflicts by default?
Should they,
and their generals and admirals and the like,
be under the command of a man
who has rumors of
drinking and carousing
and abusing women
flitting around like meteorites
streaking across the sky?
He’s simply Trump’s kind of guy,
someone who has nothing to offer
that can help us, as a nation,
get by
during trying times,
like his billionaire friend
who, with his enormous riches,
could do so much to enrich our country
but he’s about
leaving earth
as opposed to being down-to-earth
and doing good things for the earth.
There’s not a thing in all of this
that isn’t ass-backwards
if you ask me
and this is just a
couple of items on a very long exhausting list.
I would say that,
as a society, if we’re to overcome this madness
we’ll have to go about it
as forward thinkers,
the antonym
to all of this.
And, we have to take this very seriously
because we’re dealing with an
ass-backwards genius.
A few years ago, I asked a French man if they had a similar saying, like ‘excuse my english’ or something like that. He said, “Non.”