fauci told (with apologies to e.e. cummings)

[greenjar_01]

fauci told

him:he couldn’t
believe it(jesus

told him;he
wouldn’t believe
it)the

CDC
certainly told
him,and surgeon general
(yes

mam)
murthy
and even
(believe it
or

not)you
told him:i told
him;we told him
(he didn’t believe it,no

sir)it took
a Plastiflex bit of
the old auto

ventilator
tube;down the back of his throat;to tell

him

(The original, plato told, https://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/users/01/jillyb/plato_told.htm )

[elleng]

1. Buffalo Bill 's defunct

who used to
ride a watersmooth-silver
stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
Jesus

he was a handsome man
and what i want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Thank you, my dear elleng, for posting this exquisite bit of poetry by e. e. cummings!

It's long been one of my favorites.

[elleng]

3. HE's one of my favorites, so now have reason to find my poetry collection, Peg.

[Haggard Celine]

4. Trumpers don't believe

In getting a Covid shot,
But they'll eat horse paste.