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Pyramids Stuffed with Corn Cobs

It happened without intention
that I came to live in Minnesota
for ten years.  After three decades
in Iowa--the Hawkeye State,
or better, Baja Minnesota--
it was, winter weather aside,
a delightful experience to live
in the Twin Cities.

Now we are back in Tucson, again and,
truth be told, I really miss Michele Bachmann.
I know that nearly everything she says
can be accessed on-line, but that is like saying
that Mt. Vesuvius has erupted again:
it is not next door!  It is half a world away.

Our Belle, Michele, lives in some other world, you know.
The people who have been trying to contact alien intelligence
have been looking in the wrong place:  it is in Minnesota.

I am almost sorry to say it that way.
Minnesota is, for the most part,
an eminently sensible place,
but they did elect Michele to office,
and they should have to admit it.

Our Belle has been pondering the violence in the Middle East,
and she knows the wars, and rumors of wars, and outbreaks of bedbugs
are clear evidence that Jesus is coming again soon!

Jesus is not going to come again in a meadow, somewhere,
wandering barefoot through the aspens.  He will come again,
Michele knows perfectly well, when all hell breaks loose;
and things are looking pretty nice right now.

Time to convert Jews, Michele says,
and lots of ordinary mainstream unbelievers!

Wow!  Wow!  I do like that Michele!
When the going gets tough, she is there
to get us all up and dancing!  Rockets
and parables and oil drum bombs and psalms!

It is too bad she did not become President before Jesus came.
Iowans did their share:  they threw more corn kernels into
the Michele Bachmann milk can than anyone else's.
If Michele had won, last time, we would not have to worry about
a Trans Pacific Trade Pact, or statehood for Palestinians.
Global warming wouldn't matter with Paradise
just around the corner, along with Armageddon and mayhem.
Who would buy carbon credits with Blue Skies and Harps ahead?
Putin?  Who would worry about Putin?
Could Putin stop goodness from rolling in like the return of the Bison?

A lot of long-range worrisome things
such as Social Security and drug costs
and China rising up like Babylon 'crost the Bay
would not matter at all, anymore,
not when the Kingdom comes with Michele
marching in the first row!

Politics is so simple when you know the end is near
and that the pyramids are stuffed with corn cobs.



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