ANDY DUNNING

I made a good impression today April 19th, 2023...

getting fitted for a new pair of dentures

at Liberty Dental in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania;
The tab picked up courtesy
Aetna Medicare Advantra Cares (HMO D-SNP).

Unfortunately said outcome
represents the exception
(regarding measuring success or failure
in the school room or work place)
rather than the rule,
whereat scattershot academic,
and employment history
reveals mine curriculum vitae
chock-a-block extant
with poor scholastic performance
and termination (as if pierced
with a terrible swift sword)
from one job after another respectively.

I made an absolute ZERO effort attempt

to score high marks or earn kudos,
no rhyme nor reason why
yours truly rarely
if ever sought to persevere,
and essentially did not try
though forever dog gone tired
donning figurative dunce cap -
a p...

April fools' day - ordinarily all manner of tomfoolery abounds

Written/updated since last year

unlike any other
when out of this world

outlandish accouterments

people did wear
hermetically sealed

of even faintest tear

to avoid contamination

against coronavirus pandemic
air supply difficult to spare

when wing and prayer

soul saving amazing grace
frankly against scalpers, marauders,
and fraudsters steeling
themselves to profiteer.

Pandemic straps tightly

plied girded beltway

unlike any other All fools day

in annals of recorded ("fake") history

western civilization tapestry doth fray

April first two thousand and twenty four

neigh, no time for horseplay

what with coronavirus (COVID-19)

boarded ship of jilted fools
(think Homo sapiens)

barred courtesy omnipotent jackstay

furloughed wor...

April fools' day - ordinarily all manner of tomfoolery abounds

Written/updated since last year

unlike any other
when out of this world

outlandish accouterments

people did wear
hermetically sealed

of even faintest tear

to avoid contamination

against coronavirus pandemic
air supply difficult to spare

when wing and prayer

soul saving amazing grace
frankly against scalpers, marauders,
and fraudsters steeling
themselves to profiteer.

Pandemic straps tightly

plied girded beltway

unlike any other All fools day

in annals of recorded ("fake") history

western civilization tapestry doth fray

April first two thousand and twenty four

neigh, no time for horseplay

what with coronavirus (COVID-19)

boarded ship of jilted fools
(think Homo sapiens)

barred courtesy omnipotent jackstay

furloughed wor...

Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres...

where Lassie free to run across petco junction

All across the webbed

wide esse Scott's landed wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor untold

burrows of tiny Leprechauns clover
(leaf) ways grant trifold

wishes if captured might
divulge pot of gold
at rainbow's end, and e'en mend
yar shoes, whence re: souled,

thence tread softly beneath subthreshold
of audibility, cuz unseen universe
hapts tubby microscopically rolled
with subterranean inhabited by Lilliputian

mischievous impish beings
(about bajillion holed
up could fill the Taj Mahal) even donned with
heavy coat protecting them
(usually men) against cold

yet frolic with reel delight jiggling

with inborn instinct exhibit twofold

talent to dance with modesty
downplaying (while fiddling)

Bittersweet pyrrhic victory...

if a 2024 November presidential Biden win
pandemonium likely to occur,
subsequently figurative tectonic upheaval
might set United States in a tailspin.

Though discouraged, disenchanted,
disheartened, et cetera Democrat,
I intend to exercise enfranchisement
wherein human made his habitat
within Schwenksville, Penna,
a washed out town with one laundromat
pessimism rains heavy on my heart
reverberating a prominent pitapat
hoping on a broken wing
and a prayer
trumpeting Republican theocrat
blessedly outvoted videre licet
sense and sensibility courtesy electorate.

Yours truly attests the candidate
signified by donkey
the lesser of two evils,
a cruel trick doled out
courtesy fickle finger of fate
braying against lumbering Elephantidae
Thomas Nast of Harper's Weekly
in 1870 he did illustrate

...

Vice President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez - 2024

Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspirant to restore Earth in the balance predicated upon uncomfortable truth. The old geezer here would be over the moon if ye desired, and received majority votes to usher desperate legislation to mitigate dire planetary dilemma, thus whim what might seem far fetched brainstorm, could help aright (with leftist support) precariously perched world. Methinks ye would be dynamic force to implement apropos measures.

Circa...approximately eight days shy
of one month
following her thirty fifth birthday
October 13th, 2024

AOC became the second
most powerful female
within American political realm
amazingly enough to grace

the hallowed halls of the White House,

as the second-highest officer
in the executive branch

of the U.S. federal government

and ...

Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024

(alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT)

No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpires until Thursday, Jun 20, 2024, an intimation sensed (predicated on above average temperatures for February 21st, 2024) that season of blooming plants will override any assertion of Old Man Winter.

The ideal, general, ethereal ability of corporeal (once arboreal) beings to adduce, contemplate and exhaust gray inner knobby matter oft times finds this clothed apish chap entertaining gamesome insight. How did this, that or another thought spring forth per mine consciousness? This conjecture might be a shrunken modus operandi how life began, which query mankind scrunched brow throughout Homo Sapiens history did contemplate. Origin of life ascribed to the big bang, but then the question begged what preceded that cosmic event, which question came crashing into inquisitive mind of yours truly (me)...

February 13th, 2023 - old man winter gave a one...two punch

Overladen snow covered crackle and crunch
though, this skeptic owned a doubtful hunch
that such 24/7 round the clock whether coverage

would make laughingstock of forecasting

how Jack Frost feigned being out to lunch,

whereby inaccurate weather forecasters
outsmarted courtesy Mother Nature,
where snowfall accumulation tallied
one for the record books, a veritable blizzard
found meteorologists to scrunch

erroneous reports and quickly

retract how surprise Nor'easter
did quickly captcha
and wallop unsuspecting
sleeping out of towners
whipping surprise out figurative sleeve
when dziadek mróz (Belarusian: ???? ?????)
in the Belarusian language
in league with Jackie Frost,
both personifications getting last laugh

cuz women feel snubbed, shortchanged,

excluded, and being bossed<...

Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024

A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit

gently assail cilia of the nostrils,
aside from aiding distinguishing
pleasant or unpleasant smells
additionally incorporate complex structures
of the paranasal sinus mucosa
in which function
critical linkedin to respiratory defense.

Cilia beat in a coordinated manner

to clear the paranasal sinus cavities

and upper airway of the mucus blanket

that contains the pathogens and debris

continually inspired in normal respiration.

Avast extent of following poem
crafted a couple plus years ago,
when foretaste of temperate weather
covered swath of eastern seaboard.

Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),

I would forever wish to exchange

unseaso...

Happy 212th birthday Charles ens

Though written three hundred
and sixty five days ago,
the following poetic commemoration

doth not warrant any modification.
 

Said prolific author born February 7, 1812,

whose living descendents
I would be thrilled to befriend,

hence if anonymous reader

by some genetic fluke

linkedin to said

prolific storied author

please kindly reciprocate.

greetings mutual friend,

hard times dash

great expectations in this bleak house,

whereby battle of life ensues

when Sunday chimes

from master humphrey’s clock

issue somber american notes

invoking overshadowing doom

from young gentlemen:

oliver twist, nicholas nickleby, barnaby rudge

martin chuzzlewit, david copperfield,

young cricket and on the hearth little dorrit