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First off I acknowledge a portion of the following got hashtagged out decades ago (analogous college/university institutional slop), and just moments ago recovered the following from the dustbin of history and rather than update the contents, I thought to preserve the document in as much of the original unadulterated words (with just minor grammatical and punctuation tweaks) as possible to help thee dear reader glean how much like this moment my quadragenarian mental health quite similar to the present state.

Speaker of the House

Mike Johnson (R-La.) the current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. A Republican representing Louisiana's 4th Congressional District, he was first elected to the position on October 25, 2023, following the removal of Kevin McCarthy. Johnson was re-elected to the position at the start of the 119th Congress in January 2025.

Speaker of the House
without her presence,
she left an amplified

vacuum quiet as a mouse
with a craving for Melba Toast
and Manischewitz.

FORTISSIMO

FORTISSIMO

It is not noise, it is music
Admittedly, played loud
It’s you I must convince
As it is sharp like quince
And it makes you wince
But it can rouse a crowd
And make even you sick

But anyway, you can talk
With all your death metal
Playing a loud volume set
Angry at losing some bet
Thrashing it, is better yet
As if it is a debt to settle
Open chords, full torque

Ever since the missus...

started binging on Hoarders buried alive, Tubi, 
and Steve Wilco Wilkos half the day
away on our ten year old sole soulmate laptop,
a Macbook Pro,
an inexplicable byte size zits
erupted across every square inch of my face
subsequently the husband
thee blithely forgot about
doth rage against the machine,
and now, I feel at the end of my wits
because after nearly
thirty years of wedded bliss,
yours truly finally called our marriage quits

A fortnight moratorium trumpeted against further bombing Iran,

which country as iterated once linkedin
to The "axis of evil"
(a term coined by
U.S. President George W. Bush
in his 2002 State of the Union address
to describe Iran, Iraq, and North Korea,
whether founded or otherwise,
he accused these nations
of harboring terrorists
and pursuing weapons
of mass destruction (WMDs),
framing them as a collective,
significant threat to world peace.

Reprieve issued to Iran
formerly known as Persia
which name used
by Greeks and Westerners
to describe the empire starting