Cummings’ Thoughts on Charlie Kirk

This would be one man's take—
Or is it the take of many?
Was he way off,
Or was he right on the penny?

Thoughts on Charlie Kirk,
From K. Ward Cummings:
He drew these conclusions
From watching Charlie’s goings and comings.

Writing in the Austin American-Statesman, 
He suggested Kirk favored whiteness for belonging in our land.
He said Kirk dismissed empathy as weakness—
Are Cummings’ thoughts true, or out of hand?

(Index -- Poems, poetry, ready)
(Charlie Kirk poems)

 

Kirk on Martin Luther King Jr.

"Just a man," Kirk said of MLK,

And “a very flawed one at that.”

At the end of his life,

Kirk's views on MLK stood pat.

Kirk called him "awful"

And said he was "not a good person."

Earlier in his career, Kirk spoke well of him,

But at the end of life, his feelings worsened.

Kirk felt MLK enjoyed unworthy reverence—

Honor that he shouldn't have enjoyed.

So if you want to follow Kirk,
Martin Luther King is someone to avoid.

 

Cummings’ Thoughts on Charlie Kirk

This would be one man's take—

Or is it the take of many?

Was he way off,

Or was he right on the penny?

Thoughts on Charlie Kirk,

From K. Ward Cummings:

He drew these conclusions

From watching Charlie’s goings and comings.

Writing in the Austin American-Statesman,

He suggested Kirk favored whiteness for belonging in our land.

He said Kirk dismissed empathy as weakness—
Are Cummings’ thoughts true, or out of hand?

A World Full of Cannabis

A world full of cannabis—

That's too much for me.

A world packed with Mary Jane,

A world gone insane.

A world filled with those

Who swear marijuana's good,

People running here, there—everywhere,

Saying it's beyond compare.

But lay that drug down, I say;

Its faults are not a few.

Cannabis is an ill drug—

I won't just look and shrug.

The Mistake That Swept His Books off Belfast Bookshelves

Wasn't this guy once one of the most-read authors in all the land?

Now Stephen King claims he is the most-banned writer from sand to sand.

No fewer than 87 of his titles have been removed from shelves nationwide—

That's a lot of books to be swept out by the tide.

The author of Bag of Bones and The Shining has been mostly banned for the content of his books;

That's why he has received most of the disapproving looks.

But now there's the case of his books being banned from Belfast Books stores—

You just won't find them if you enter that establishment's doors.

King wrongly suggested Charlie Kirk “advocated stoning gays to death,”

An untruthful thing to say about a man who just drew his last breath.

King’s was a mistake to apologize for—and he did,

But you can certainly imagine how Kirk supporters flipped a lid.

Kirk did once quote from the Bible, where it speaks of two men laying:

“...thou shall lay with another man shall be stoned to death, just saying.”

So, by and large, the banning of King's books is because their content doesn't meet with approval—

But now there's the case of Belfast Books: a small but noteworthy case of book removal.