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I Don't Want To Be Great Again

Hey everyone I'm looking for a sandy beach to buy 

where I can go stick my head in the sand for four looong years.

Really, I don't want to know what's going on in this world of bad news, bad news, bad news.

I don't want to buy a newspaper for a dime from the boy on the corner,

I don't want to sit around the old brown radio with the family and fiddle with the dial to see what we can hear,

I don't want to plop in front of the little black and white screened tv my parents won in a raffle,

I don't want to watch the serious men in suits puff on their cigs and recite the news,

I don't want the full screen colored version brought on all those cable channels either,

and finally I am not interested in scrolling through Google Land to see what's up with Orange Man and his friends.

Nope, I'm looking for a deserted beach to buy.

It will be named Camp Head in the Sand.

Thank you!

This will Make Me Great Again,

even though, really, I just want to be humble. 

 

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Stephen Gospage

Thu 6th Mar 2025 08:52

Fine poem, Hélène. I often want to tune out of all this, but don't suppose that I will. More's the pity, I guess. If everyone ignored the guy, he'd probably go away!

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Marla Joy

Wed 5th Mar 2025 22:48

Hélène,

Beautifully done.

Marla

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Tom Doolan

Wed 5th Mar 2025 15:52

Stop the world 🌏- I want to get off lol.🙉

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Graham Sherwood

Wed 5th Mar 2025 15:23

Will it be big enough for two Helene?

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