skip fox
Profile Information
Member since: 2002
Number of posts: 19,123
Number of posts: 19,123
About Me
I am retired, now a professor emeritus at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where I taught in the English department for 37 years. I've written 4 chapbooks and 5 full-sized books (all listed as poetry though many include other genres as well), including _Sheer Indefinite: Selected Poems, 1991-2012 (Univ. of New Orleans Press, 2012). I've also written a 500+ page bibliography of three contemporary poets: Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, and Robert Duncan. I am writing now, both fiction and poetry, more now than ever. My first vote for President of the United States was for Dick Gregory in 1968 (Bowling Green, Ohio). Favorite quote: "It's easy to be an idealist if you don't have to mind the evidence, but no one said it was supposed to be easy" (Richard LaPauvre).
Journal Archives
"Somebody keeps following me." . . . Please come CAPTIOM PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald ("What year is this? Who's president?" ) Trump is thnking: "It's like everybody else is nuts. . . . Their ideas are grabbing them by the collars and smashing them into walls. . . . Everywhere I go I hear silent explosions and know what's happening far down below. . . . The deep state has a battalion of invisible men trying to destroy everything I am. . . . But I can get America out of this. . . . I just gotta keep my head." ********************************************* Above CAPTION based on reports of Trumps increasing instability as addressed by Crooks and Liars, summarizing a Vanity Fair story: https://crooksandliars.com/2018/08/reports-white-house-trump-nuts-time-really |
Posted by skip fox | Mon Sep 3, 2018, 09:13 AM (1 replies)
Make America Grim Again. . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald Trump is saying: “‘NAFTA,’ ‘NAFTA,’ ‘NAFTA,’ that’s all I hear is ‘NAFTA’! . . . NAFTA has harmed hundreds f millions of hard-working Americans and manufactures. . . . So we’re going to call it something else from now on. . . . It’s not ‘NAFTA’ anymore. . . . It's now the North American Trade Agreement, or NATA. . .. And most importantly, ‘NATA’ fits better on a baseball cap. . . . Who says I've not done anything of lasting consequence?” |
Posted by skip fox | Sun Sep 2, 2018, 10:29 AM (4 replies)
"With all due respect . . ." . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald ("All eyes on he?" ) Trump is thinking: "Sure he deserves a bit of honor, but Jesus, day after freaking day, wall-to-wall McCain. . . . I don't want to take anything away for him but maybe I could round up some bad hombres in a massive raid. . . . No, then it will be all about Sessions. . . . How 'bout a sneak attack on North Korea? . . . Naw, then all the generals and soldiers will get all the attention. . . . Damn! . . .I know! . . . I could stage a coup against myself! . . . Perfect. . . . I mean, I don't want to take anything away from McCain, but this will show them all!" |
Posted by skip fox | Sat Sep 1, 2018, 10:23 AM (4 replies)
"Why would you ever listen to what you're telling yourself?" . . . Come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald ("If you know you're right, how can you be wrong?" ) Trump is saying: "I'm the only one who you can trust, and if you doubt that, just ask me, . . . if so, fact so, dummy." **************************************************** Above CAPTION based on the following Washington Post story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pushes-a-reality-where-opponents-are-peddling-false-facts-and-only-he-can-be-trusted/2018/08/30/d7ac7c38-ac62-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html?utm_term=.9f8ee7ebad26 |
Posted by skip fox | Fri Aug 31, 2018, 08:32 AM (3 replies)
"Sure, McCain was okay I guess." . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Donald Trump!!
Donald (The original handicap) Trump is saying: "I certainly do not mind all the attention John McCain is getting after his death, even though people are neglecting one of the greatest trade deals of all times while enjoying a historically high economy. . . . I mean, if they want to name some regional airports and old buildings after him, fine. . . . It just shows the world what a great country America is that someone could rise so high on such mediocre intellect and pretense of patriotism. . . . Of course they tell me he had some connections. . . . Anyway, nowhere but America!" |
Posted by skip fox | Wed Aug 29, 2018, 09:03 AM (4 replies)
"He thought it was always about him." . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald ("I'm not planning on dying" ) Trump is saying: "Despite our differences on policy and politics, I respect Senator John McCain's service to our country and I say this even though the timing of his death was a bit suspicious: just before I was going to announce the greatest trade agreement ever. . . . Some people are saying things about that, . . . like how did they know about the timing of the trade deal? . . . Was there a leak?. . . What was McCain's original plan for dying? . . . And so on, . . . but now's not the time to go into it. . . . After all, the week's still young." |
Posted by skip fox | Tue Aug 28, 2018, 09:18 AM (3 replies)
"That senator who I will not name." . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald ("Mexico's my b*tch now" ) Trump is saying: "Are you kidding? The new trade deal with Mexico is great. . . . It's fantastic. . . . It pushed that traitorous senator who I will not name out of the spotlight, didn't it?" |
Posted by skip fox | Mon Aug 27, 2018, 09:57 AM (9 replies)
"Look, I like war heroes who didn't die." . . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald ("My bone spur has a name: Pinocchio" ) Trump is saying: "The real story is that McCain was never the same after that prison camp. . . . I don't want to spread unfounded rumors, but some people are saying the North Koreans with Soviet advisors got to him in prison, you know, like brain washing, . . . I mean, he was an admiral's son and everything. . . . If they could turn him, what a great plant! . . . They could steer him into politics and then pull his strings. . . . But it might just have been the torture. . . . Again, I don't want to start any rumors, that's just what I heard." |
Posted by skip fox | Mon Aug 27, 2018, 07:26 AM (3 replies)
Hyperbole's Champion, Master of Hypocrisy. . . . Please come CAPTION Presidented Trump:
Donald (bone-spur in frontal lobe) Trump is saying: "Look, I like war heroes who don't die, . . . alright?" |
Posted by skip fox | Sun Aug 26, 2018, 10:22 AM (4 replies)
"Can you imagine such a man?" . . Please come CAPTION PresiDented Trump!!!
Donald ("Even my hemorrhoids are 99.9% gold; that's been certified" ) Trump is saying: "Ainsley, If I would have known pudgy Jeff Sessions was going to foul everything up by recusing himself from the Russia witch-hunt, I wouldn't have hired him. But his loyalty out-weighed what I should have figured would come from a moral vacuum on two, pudgy legs, prancing up and down while obviously thinking what he's talking about and saying is so god-awful important and absolutely right every damned time!!! . . . And even making a big show of it!!!! . . . Can you imagine such a man?" |
Posted by skip fox | Fri Aug 24, 2018, 04:57 PM (5 replies)
