Elastic Band Physics

Leonard Cohen died the day Trump was elected.

Richard Simmons died the day Trump got shot.

It feels like there’s a cosmic elastic band .

A threshold of tolerance  for sheer  nonsense,

that can only stretch so far,and ,

that reaching  a point of critical  out right absurdity

it SNAPS, leading to certain high risk people getting flung

head long into an eternity of uncontrollable tearful heart

wrenching laughter

making their very last sidesplitting  desperate gasp

for air and life before leaving a planet that makes no

Fucking sense whatsoever.

Derek Earl Houghton