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It's Gonna Be Great

A backward poem for backward times

The president is doing greatOnly a fool would thinkOtherwiseMost everyone believesWe should trust himThere is no cause for concernBut some are sayingThe country is in dangerPeople are scaredNothing could be further from the truthEverything is going to be fineNow read from the bottom up…* * *© 2017 by M.P. Witwer • All rights reserved  

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American Carnage

James and Zarina are nobodies more or less until they've been arranged to marry each other.

Zarina felt herself being stared at which is something she should be used by now.  The three versions of herself in the mirror looked back at her for an answer to the question they posed. It made glancing at the beautiful figure in front of her hard and yet she remained absolutely entranced.I’ve never been so dolled up in my life, and it’s for a stranger.Being married off was one of her greatest fear, everyone told her it...

Land of the brave… home of the free?That’s not quite right, but he’s not a mind for details. The whiskey slurs and slops in his stomach like a bad dream. American flag shorts. Unemployment lines color his future.The men America left behind sit huddled in the truth of their own misery. While gold litters the streets of the coastal elites, there is nothing left for them in the Rust Belt. Torn asunder by progress and conserv...

Through a Child's Eyes

This was our trip through The Badlands.

The sun rose behind us, as I drove my motor home out of the campground in St. Mary's, Montana. We headed west, our destination Badlands National Park in North Dakota. This was the end of the first week of a five-week trip driving around America. The girls sat at the table playing games and watched, as the miles flew by. They giggled and yelled, when they saw something they liked. We drove I-90 from Montana into North Dako...

Unanswered Questions

A couple a questions no one can answer with proper, justifiable responses that aren't just opinion

1: Why is pot illegal, but Beer and Cigarettes (two of the deadliest inventions known to man) are.2: Why does America still think it's the number one country?3: Why is it okay to tell a person they are too skinny, but it's considered not nice to call a person too fat?4: Why can't a girl ask a GUY out on a date...why does it always have to be the other way around?5: Why do people only seem to care for someone after they ar...