I’m Highly Curious

  

 

 

I am highly curious

Of the PM’s moves,

How this snap election thing

Is become her groove.

 

What, pray tell,

Is her reason for such?

I really wish she would come out

And tell us as much.

 

Be transparent Mam,

As you did promise,

Why are these snap elections

So high on your list?

 

Is five years too much

To handle at a time

Or is getting a fresh mandate

Niggling at your mind?

 

 

 

Atherley then Ralphie,

Forming an Opposition

And putting a blot on the outcome

Of the elections.

 

 

 

Are rumblings within

Your well-oiled machine?

Are senior members of the party

Causing you to scream?

 

Tell us Madam PM

What is upsetting you

And causing you to end the term

Before you are through.

 

Constitution incomplete

Promised in twenty-two,

But a general election imminent

Announced by you.

 

A snap general election

A year before it is due,

I tell you Madam PM, I am curious

And others are too.

 

If you do this again

Fifteen years would be eleven:

Three and a half twice plus four

Creates a problem.

 

Three terms of eleven years

Rather than fifteen,

I would feel rather short-changed

If you see what I mean.

 

So, Madam PM

What is this all about?

Are you just calling snap elections

Because you have the clout?

 

Or was it, I ask you,

To assuredly settle a score

By removing a thorn in your flesh

That makes you sore?

 

Did you run out steam

And preferred a fresh start

Or did you want to show the wannabees

They are not smart?

 

 

 

Would you be disposed

To do like the USA

And have a fixed date for elections

And proceed in this way?

 

Highly curious

Madam Prime Minister,

Please answer me truthfully

And do not defer.

 

Stewart Russell © January 24, 2026

 

Panic Setting In

 

 

It’s the best of times

And the worst of times,

Garbage put Trump over the top

And the loser whines.

 

Panic is setting in

For they expect the worst

Since with Trump on the throne

It’s like a curse.

 

He is anti-Blacks

And anti-Asians too,

Anti-Latinos, and anti-Mexicans

Is a popular view.

 

Rise, Ku Klux Klan!

It’s your time to shine,

With Donald Trump at the helm

It is your time.

 

The illegal must go

The Whites are saying

For the “Great Again America”

We are building.

 

This is quite in sync

With Trump’s sentiment:

To make America Great Again

His sole intent.

 

A glance at history

Tells us when this was

For when America was great

Blacks were judged.

 

 

Judged to be slaves

Or at most cotton pickers,

No better than despised snakes

That on their belly slither.

 

Second class citizens

With freedom curtailed,

And when agitating for rights

They mostly failed.

 

Panic is setting in,

Here comes the curse

And the Democrat supporters

Think he is the worst.

 

A one-man rule:

Alias Donald Trump!

Garbage voters put him in

So, USA is a dump.

 

The end of the World

Is around the bend;

Donald Trump and his minions

Will be the end.

 

With a rod of iron

The Whites will rule

And America will be great again

And all will be cool.

 

 

True for Republicans

But not for Democrats,

The end of the World is coming

Now that Trump is back.

 

The end of elections:

That is for sure,

With Donald Trump as President

No need for more.

 

America will become

The Trump Towers again

Though from the White House

Donald Trump will reign.

 

Please be advised

That this is just a view,

It is categorically not mine!

How about you?

 

I don’t know enough

Re one side or the next,

And consequently, I am ignorant

Of the real context.

 

But what I do know

There seems to be panic

And there are many who believe

Americans are sick.

 

Stewart Russell © November 14, 2024