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While over the water

We scoff at your pains

The terrible truth is that

Ours is the same

For the dreadful Casholians

Gather each year

In a place, name of Davos

To laugh and to jeer

At the poor little have-nots

Who don't have big boats

And are frantically paddling

To just keep afloat

And to get more Thing-whatsits

That cost green and gold

That they give the Casholians Who give them to hold those Thing-whatsits they cling to

With feverish glee

But the problem is plain as

A zit on your knee:

When you're treading in water

And your hands are quite full

Sooner or later

You feel the deep's pull.

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Love it

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Brilliant. Dr. Shalom Seuss-ish.

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A little kid asked me, " why do they have these big parties and only one person is there...it's hardly a convention." Well, yes I said. It's just a big waste of money. "And if they raise all this money from donations, where does it go if they lose? Do they return it?" Well, no I said. "That's legal? or is that just their job to raise money for nothing." Well, I suppose so.

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Leaving this here:

"Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has been polluted will they realize they can't eat money."

(Paraphrased, source forgotten, thanks to Long Covid.)

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WOW WOW WOWeeeee! Splendid. Heartbreaking. Scary and rageful. Shalom does it again.

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✌️👍😃

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Enjoyed! Excellent!

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Enjoyed reading this

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And they still let you live? Those would-be royalty who say "look at our glorious garments" but walk with naked butt? And you be the boy who cried "No clothes no clothes!!" And they have not yet said "off with his head!"? I am both amazed and so verily verily relieved.

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The Prez. did not shine

It was too late to play

So they squirmed in the oval

All that long messed-up day.

They looked and they saw stomp in like a brat

They looked and they saw her, VP, fake eclat,

And she said to them:

Why do you sit there like that?

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Thanks. Forgot to put in “her” before “stomp”

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Thank you, for putting a huge shit eating grin on my face :)) and putting pictures in my mind, that I will not be able to unsee so soon.

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"pay no attention

to those great basholias,

where the wealthy Casholias

make their grand speecholias:

cuz’ if you ain’t already rich, pal,

you’re fucked in Casholia."

I didn't say it, Shalom did.

He's not alone in that conclusion.

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Excellent as always!

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