Wednesday, September 18, 2024

If Mr. Vance Says You Ate Someone's Pet Cat Then Obviously You ate Someone's Pet Cat - not really a poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

If Mr. Vance Says You Ate Someone’s Pet Cat

Then Obviously You Ate Someone’s Pet Cat

 

 

“Show me the man and I will show you the crime”

 

-many attributions, usually to Lavrentia Beria, sometimes to Stalin

 

 

"In Springfield, they're eating the dogs…They're eating the cats.

They're eating the pets of the people that live there.”

 

-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, 10 September 2024

 

 

"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." 

 

-Vice presidential candidate J. D. Vance on CNN, Sunday, 15 September 2024

 

 

Little children in school are threatened with bombs

 

Because someone said that someone said

That someone ate someone else’s pet cat

 

Patients in hospitals are threatened with bombs

 

Because someone said that someone said

That someone ate someone else’s pet cat

 

City office workers are threatened with bombs

 

Because someone said that someone said

That someone ate someone else’s pet cat

 

A Lutheran university is threatened with bombs

 

Because someone said that someone said

That someone ate someone else’s pet cat

 

A few Proud Boys [sic] stumble around in the street

 

Because two Heroic Men of Destiny said

That someone ate someone else’s pet cat

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