I Am Number Four

 Trump has no actual principles or convictions. He's a Hindenburg full of poison gas, that's all.

No Borders for Superman

“The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.”
― David Levithan

Donald Trump, Cave Man

And Trump caves on the government shutdown, just as I anticipated.

A) I knew that the moment the shutdown began to seriously interfere with air traffic, and thus inconvenience the rich and the corporations, it would end,

B) Trump desperately needed a distraction from the damning Stone indictment.

C) Trump was also desperate to feed his pathetic, needy ego with the State of the Union address. Therefore, the signs pointed to Trump folding.

You know, Trump has no actual principles or convictions. He’s just a Hindenburg full of poison gas, that’s all.

Be a Lion

Mindfulness is not urgency, but calm. It’s not tying your courage to the sticking-point and trying, but untying and untrying.

MAGA: Maggots of the Mind

Trump voters always think that because they are ignorant of something,
that makes it untrue.

Archaic Torso of Apollo, by Rilke

We cannot know his legendary head

with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could 
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast’s fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

Walling Off Sanity

Trump's stupidity and incompetence is the only thing that's saved the republic so far, and that's a pretty awful thing to have to rely on.