I am not
by nature
a quitter;
but I tell you now
I’m just about ready
to throw in the towel
when it comes
to what’s going on
in the world.
I’m done trying
to make sense
of events;
keeping pace
following the thread
seeing where any of this is going
and wondering whether
it’s me or Them
that’s finally gone insane.
No matter
how much
I see, hear, know
I’m no nearer
to understanding
or being able to change a thing:
They will do
what They will do
regardless of me and mine.
So at the risk
abandoning my post
I’m going dark
leaving Them to it
for a while
see if the sky falls in
and get back to the real work
the real world
They cannot touch or spoil.
Gonecycling (again) 
We’re all wondering the same thing…hmm…could this be group insanity caused by the outside world’s idiots?
Don’t know how much of the increasingly surreal events over here make it into the US media, but there certainly seems to be a kind of collective madness gripping our so-called political class just now. The deflection delusion and denial are positively Orwellian: people are making public straight-faced public statements that not only directly contradict things they’ve said before, but actually have no basis in reality; they are literally denying the evidence of their own eyes and ears. I really don’t know how they function as human beings, let alone politicians. And there’s no sign of it ending any time soon. Strange and worrying times.