The Gardenias of Octogenarian Insights

By S Falcon MacDowell

Relevant poetry.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ouroboros Independent Books
• Release date: Mar 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301771622

S Falcon MacDowell

Born in Alabama, S Falcon MacDowell grew up in Louisiana, Mississippi and Missouri, and presently resides in southern Arizona. He has driven trucks and worked shrimp boats, and taught English, history and creative writing at high school and college levels. Interests include hiking and astronomy.

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Four years hence,

If USA still has a system

Vaguely resembling democracy in 2012,

We should insist on a

New format for presidential debates.

At the first debate

All the questions would come from

Third-graders, and could only be about

iTunes and issues related to recess.

The second debate would be hosted

By a panel of distinguished

Quantum mechanics in greasy coveralls.

On pain of immediate death by firing squad,

No answer could contain a religious reference,

Or have any link to abortion, whether pro

Or con; all reviews and commentary

Would have to be written in a format

Fit to be published in PNAS.

The third and final debate could be traditional

With distinguished moderators; however, the

Candidates would have to be in white face, and

Respond to all questions as mimes, or like they

Were playing charades. Any uttered word here

Would also earn them a bullet.

As for the veep candidate debate, I say,

Turn 'em loose from all their security and

Handlers, and let 'em run wild at the

Iowa State Fair for a ninety minute

Spit wad battle, broadcast live only on

MTV.

Believe Me

I've been a lifetime

Perfecting these initials

Freeform elaborate conchoid

Resembles a female whipworm

Rippling across the lower corner of

Every page

Mindless semiotic

A certain intellect passed this way

Awake or asleep

Minted with certified validation

You can trust

Put that in your IV and

Mainline it

In fact

It was precisely because of my

Nonpareil penmanship that I

Thought to become a physician of men

In the first place

Every other issue evaporates

With no lingering disgraceful mark or trace

Without much trouble

No Artificial Preservatives, or Not Many

your school system's participation is critical for

helping us to sort out the threats to all our

school systems. this is critical new research about

what sort of virtual worlds we're willing to welcome

and embrace. who says that integrating games and

new research about what is critical for helping

children in 1982 provides corrosion inhibitor products

for china? it's a lie.

cooling water systems have been on-going in china

since 1982, and integrating video games with the new

research into cooling water in our own school systems

is actually a vital service for investigating the cooling

of glutaraldehyde, a principle as fundamental and

self-evident as shaving newborns for waxed baby

races. many researchers (who are in fact a sort of

threat) have indeed long been playing the very sort

of games that can put children in a global economy;

at least since 1982. ironically, this provides help for

children, who become competitive corporate executives

eventually, and also provides numerous other relevant

services, including (but not limited to) glutaraldehyde

preservation schemes for wanton recidivist children.

unethical researchers sometimes breed while playing

video games involving education and video technology in

boiler rooms. we also hear of certain unnamed and

uninhibited corporate executives providing similar

irrelevant services, and the threat they pose to society

is self-evident, as is the fact that glutaraldehyde provides

needed corrosion resistance. researchers are designing

inhibitors for cooling water systems, and a few are even

leading experts in this and other fields. we also hear

occasionally from company who overstay their visits, and

they also inhibit the same. a sort of threat they pose:

just look at their video games.

and we do look at their video games, too, and at yours,

mine, ours, and at inhibitors, and biocides (including

glutaraldehyde), and at despicable researchers who are

designing new breeds of invasive video games and water

systems and boilers. we also are leading experts, so you

should bow down before us now, for we declare our intent

to integrate video games into your worthless worlds,

which we lustily desire to disintegrate. our company also

provides panaceas for the same perceived threats that we

ourselves pose to society. systems and boilers are the

new plastic. we also occasionally discuss what sort of

threats these really pose to you, about which we are

understandably reluctant to discuss, including