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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

I picked out this little poem about tea and I restacked it because I like tea so much. Not only that but the tea shop around the corner from me is called Mad Hatters.

Tea Party Madness

for Connor Kelly

Since we agree,

let's have a nice tea

with our bats in the belfry.

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Michael R. Burch's avatar

Connor is one of the better editors I know. This was an inside joke about some of the right-wing, Trump-supporting poets I call the Keystone Scops. Glad you liked it.

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Actually, I didn't fully get that until you said it. Now it's twice as good as I had thought!

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Michael R. Burch's avatar

Americans should get the joke because the Tea Party was the maddest thing in American politics until Trump and MAGA made it seem almost sane.

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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

What you said there is so funny, but it's true. The world has taken a really insane turn just now. Who knows just where it will end up? Was it Sarah Palin who was in the Tea Party?

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Michael R. Burch's avatar

Yes, weepin' an' wailin' Sarah Palin was a star of the Tea Party.

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Geraldine A. V. Hughes's avatar

Sir Michael, you took me to places I have never been before, the atmospherics, touchable. Geraldine

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Michael R. Burch's avatar

Geraldine, I'm glad you liked my Poems for Poets and I truly appreciate your taking time to read and comment.

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