STRANGE CREATURE
Terrorism blows you up
Nastiness grinds you down
Stupidity wears you out
The media sucks you in, drags you under Politics does you over
Up, down, in, out, under, over!
But ducks...
Ducks just LET YOU BE.
 
YOU AND ME 
The pen is mightier than the sword
And mightier than the literary award
Without the pen we'd be unable 
To Leave those notes on the kitchen table
Nothing lovelier ever penned
With three small crosses at the end
Made for no one else to see
The Literature of you and me.