Dumping on Trump

Trump owned the shutdown.
We owned plane tickets to Yosemite.

El Capitan was grand,
Bridalveil Fall sublime,

but the toilets were full,
no place to go

except the roadside or woods
so we went, wouldn't you?

Of course it's de rigueur
to dump on Trump,

but he wanted this shutdown.
How fitting it seemed then to see,

as we cruised El Portal Road,
so many park guests doing just that.

© Darrell Petska

Yosemite visitors turn roads into toilets as shutdown crises mount at national parks

Yosemite limits visitors, citing continuing problems with human waste during shutdown

Darrell Petska is a Middleton, Wisconsin writer. You can find his published writings at conservancies.wordpress.com

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IT'S THE MOON JIM, JUST LIKE WE KNOW IT

It was all cold and dark
of life there was not a spark.
It will not make you swoon
the dark side of the Moon.
And all those grey rocks
did not knockoff our socks.
If China asked BBC Cyrmu
they could have done it in quarry.
An alien base or a Dalek or two
or anything really out of the blue.
But just rocks and space
this will leave not a trace
in the pages of history.
It's space Jim, but no story.

© Phil Knight

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Phil Knight is poet from Neath in South Wales. His poetry collection 'You Are Welcome To Wales" was published in 2015 by The Red Poets.