Scream Time!

How do you manage screen time for yourself?

Iโ€™m managing my scream time

Trying not to choke.

How could civilised people

Vote for Donald Chump?


I just donโ€™t get Americans

Heโ€™s a liar and a cheat!

An irresponsible narcissist

You wouldnโ€™t want to meet.


He comes across an idiot

A man you canโ€™t respect

All his shady business deals

So easy to forget?


At least there will be tax breaks

For Musk and billionaires.

As for all the ordinary folk

At least heโ€™ll say he cares.


But donโ€™t go wanting health care

Unless youโ€™re well insured.

Too sick to work and lose your job?

Then youโ€™ll go to the wall.


Thereโ€™ll be curbs on abortion

So kids safe in the womb.

But theyโ€™ll grow up and go to school

and can be shot at there.


I guess there must be something

We foreigners donโ€™t see?

Except perhaps the Russians?

Theyโ€™ll love to see him there.


The world feels more unstable

You canโ€™t know what heโ€™ll do

And as for climate action

Thereโ€™ll be no progress there.


The Guardian 6th November

The result is a catastrophe for the world. It saw Kamala Harrisโ€™s competence and expertise, her decency and grace, her potential to be the first female president in Americaโ€™s 248-year history. It also saw Trumpโ€™s venality and vulgarity, his crass insults and crude populism, his dehumanisation of immigrants that echoed Adolf Hitler. And the world asked: how is this race even close?