2 thoughts on “State of the World Friday the Thirteenth March Year of Our Lord 2026 12:13 AM by Dale Barrigar Williams”
Dale
The great news is there won’t be a WW IV, unless fought by hardy micro organisms. There’s irony to be found in the possibility of blowing up the word through an effort to keep a nation from being able to do so by itself. Fortunately, the Will to Survive is a pretty big instinct.
We have yet to come far from our Wart Hog bone wielding ancestors in some ways.
This was written as a chorus for The Beatles even though the band broke up a little while ago. Maye they will get back together again.
I imagine John calling out in a comic voice, “All together now!” And then the Fab Four shall sing this chorus in unison, at least seven or eight or maybe nine times in a row.
Thanks, too, to all the former CIA analysts, former four-star generals, and current historians and military analysts whom I viewed on You Tube all evening long on the night this poem got written. The surest thing we can say from that is that, while the leadership in Russia and China is probably just as evil as the leadership in the USA, THEY know what they’re doing a hell of a lot more than we do. As evil as they may be, and I don’t deny that they are evil, they have done their homework, and I do not think we can say the same for our own leaders (except for the evil part). Food for thought, as they say.
Thank you!
Dale
PS
Thanks to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut as well as Lewis Carroll for further poetic inspiration…”Off with their heads!”
Dale
The great news is there won’t be a WW IV, unless fought by hardy micro organisms. There’s irony to be found in the possibility of blowing up the word through an effort to keep a nation from being able to do so by itself. Fortunately, the Will to Survive is a pretty big instinct.
We have yet to come far from our Wart Hog bone wielding ancestors in some ways.
Excellent little verse, dizzying photo too!
Leila
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Leila
This was written as a chorus for The Beatles even though the band broke up a little while ago. Maye they will get back together again.
I imagine John calling out in a comic voice, “All together now!” And then the Fab Four shall sing this chorus in unison, at least seven or eight or maybe nine times in a row.
Thanks, too, to all the former CIA analysts, former four-star generals, and current historians and military analysts whom I viewed on You Tube all evening long on the night this poem got written. The surest thing we can say from that is that, while the leadership in Russia and China is probably just as evil as the leadership in the USA, THEY know what they’re doing a hell of a lot more than we do. As evil as they may be, and I don’t deny that they are evil, they have done their homework, and I do not think we can say the same for our own leaders (except for the evil part). Food for thought, as they say.
Thank you!
Dale
PS
Thanks to Joseph Heller and Kurt Vonnegut as well as Lewis Carroll for further poetic inspiration…”Off with their heads!”
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