The world could use less blue and red,
separating states;
let’s look for lavender instead
and lessen our debates.
Let’s get to know our neighbors again
and open up our doors;
let’s fill the world with many friends
and end ongoing wars.
The world could use more open meetings
and freedom of the press;
more investigations leading
to criminal arrest.
The world needs shorter terms of use
that users understand,
not fifty pages so obtuse
that suits get out of hand.
The world could use less ransomware,
more random acts of kindness;
less abandonment, more care,
so fewer things divide us.
Let’s stop bowing heads to Bluetooth phones
where prayers are never heard;
we expect bread to come from stones,
but won’t consume God’s word.
The world could use a lot more Jesus
and a lot less joints;
instead we plead for men to please us
and they disappoint.
Let’s stop waiting for the feds to save us
with more benefits
that serve only to enslave us
to their whims and writs.
Let’s stop forcing folks to track their earnings
when we have the IRS;
we require complex tax returns
at the prep industry’s request.
We must keep corporate monopolies
from chasing what’s illegal –
committing highway robberies,
placing profits over people.
We need less billboards on our highways
ruining the view,
distracting drivers zipping by
by selling us shampoo.
The world could use less hazardous fracking,
pumping pollutants in the ground,
till our caverns begin cracking
and our drinking water’s brown.
We need less billionaires in Congress
killing the prayers of millions;
they dare to disregard their conscious
and trample on civilians.
We need less hacking from the types
who leak all of our passwords,
and fewer maddening tax hikes
from bureaucrats ass-backwards.
Let’s stop puking over finance laws
with huge super PACs
funding inauguration balls
through their stupid-tax.
Nations should pay off all their debts
and forgive their neighbors’,
ensure their people aren’t oppressed
and subject to forced labor.
We need more presidents who just preside
instead of those who rule,
taking precedence with pride
and pissing in the pool.
The world needs more common folks in Congress –
teachers, preachers, clerks –
not pros who do what is preposterous
and stay there for the perks.
Let’s return to having states
that rule as they see fit,
instead of national dictates
which leave the nation split.
We should stop erasing as we choose
and learn from history;
stop defacing our statues,
but replace Mister Lee.
We should listen when someone says “rape”
and actually test the kits,
so victims do not lie awake
till their case gets dismissed.
The world could use a boom in going
to the voting booth,
and we could do without doom scrolling –
that’s the honest truth.
The world could use less nuclear weapons
that doom our doomsday clock
to count from minutes down to seconds
while we Zoom, Facebook and TikTok.
We need less faces stuck in mobile phones
and more social graces;
let’s get closer with the Jones,
and stop scrolling pages.
We need less disembodied voices
taking our commands,
and to stop trading privacy
for biometric scans.
Let’s stop living life for content
and try to be present;
we don’t need a million likes and comments
just to be content.
If only we’d stop bashing debtors
and do better with the dash;
perhaps we’d find that all life’s pleasures
can’t be purchased with our cash.
We should seek other folks’ success,
but bridle all our barons,
care about our titles less,
and have less entitled Karens.
It shouldn’t take a law degree
to follow legal cases,
and agreements that we read
should not be fifty pages.
Let’s end every campaign speech
from career politicians
whose end goal is to impeach
each pol in opposition.
Let’s stop thinking presidents will save us
from every evil we perceive;
instead, let’s be far more courageous
about what we believe.
We need men who stand up to regimes
while injustice rolls like tanks,
and people who still have a dream –
and, free at last, give thanks.
Let’s re-roll all the red tape
that holds our state together,
and let liberty take shape
instead of being tethered.
The world could use a few more manners
and pardons so it heals,
plus less marketers and scammers
while we start our meals.
The world could use less cancel culture
and not throw the first stone;
we handle scandal like a vulture,
but ignore our own.
The world could use less paranoia
that the past will bite them in the rear,
and a lot less schadenfreude
when others must leave their career.
We should stop being so P.C. –
euphemisms used today
will be taboo, I guarantee,
a few decades away.
We should respect correct elections
while still being cautious;
let’s reject any insurrections
and pray for those in office.
The world could use more spiffy clothes
but far fewer suits;
let’s love the folks that we oppose
and stop courtroom disputes.
We need fewer prisons and more schools
providing education,
more men who listen to the rules
and not stuck at the station.
We need more kids who make their beds,
don’t talk back and complain,
so they don’t grow up baking meth
and stuck on crack cocaine.
We should not lack for black justice,
but fight for what is right;
let’s live so that more people trust us,
let’s love and let’s invite.
The world could use less blood-filled sneakers
and more filled blood banks,
and let’s pay more to our skilled teachers
than customary thanks.
Our schools should focus less on testing
and homogenizing kids,
so students aren’t brought down by stress,
but build off Myers-Briggs.
The world could use more scholarships
to teach our kids careers,
and a lot less dollar tips
so they’re not in arrears.
Let’s stop mass-producing college grads
who play career roulette,
and teach the skills they need to have
without the fear of debt.
Let’s raise builders and engineers
and fewer TikTok stars;
let’s be makers and pioneers
who finally walk on Mars.
The world could use much faster trains
and monuments that scrape the sky;
let’s build the future of airplanes
instead of red tape piled high.
The world needs fewer border walls
severing the land,
and more Borders Books in malls
and eyes in the newsstand.
The world could use less campaign speeches
and more folks who champion freedom;
if congresspeople refuse to reach
across the aisle, let’s unseat ‘em!
The world needs people to reclaim
control from institutions,
so folks won’t hide behind fake names
for fear of retribution.
The world could do with less insurance,
and more folks who save,
instead of folks who are content
to see adjusters paid.
We should all be better givers
when we see paupers on our way;
we worry pennies will be frittered,
but we waste dollars by the day.
We need fewer thousand-dollar coffins
for folks with too much cash;
stop overpaying for black boxes
while beggars sleep in trash.
The world should put away its porn
and stop its masturbating;
no wonder we are so forlorn,
with actors at our waiting.
The world could use fewer deepfakes
created to deceive,
for when our faces are replaced,
what speech can be believed?
We need fewer faces stuck in mobile phones,
and more social graces;
stop putting trust in the unknowns
when they’re used to trace us.
The world needs fewer strip clubs
promising pole dancers,
and far more committed hubs,
who give wives honest answers.
The world should slap a warning
on smoke sticks and cigars,
plus every last recording
till we ignore porn stars.
The world could use less Photoshop
and adverts selling sex,
telling women that they’re not
young ladies but objects.
The world could use less pride parades
and more humility,
we need more people who will pray
to do God’s will indeed.
The world needs more Salvation Armies
and a lot less Hooters,
fewer orgies and sex parties,
plus porn-packed computers.
The world could use less mass surveillance
and more men attending mass;
no more of those masked assailants
in maddening attacks.
We need fewer 3D-printed guns
and courtroom convictions;
less fentanyl sold by the tons
and more friend prescriptions.
We don’t need child predators
exposing genitals,
but letters to our editors
and calls to senators.
Let’s stop mocking those whom we elect,
and show respect a second,
lest democracy be wrecked
and we hold the weapon.
Schools should fuel curiosity,
instead of meting tests
and pleasing local policy
set by elected pests.
The world needs fewer landfills,
less litter in the ocean;
plus more fans of Lindsay Mills
as well as Edward Snowden.
The world needs fewer colonies
and much more community;
it should trade its lotteries
for fiscal opportunity.
Our hospitals should all assure us
their prices aren’t inflated
for those who afford insurance
while others go unaided.
The world has no place for abortion
when adoption is an option,
yet often we prefer our sin
and pop mail-order toxins.
The world could use less revenge porn
and far more make-up sex;
plus fewer folks who suffer scorn
each time they make missteps.
The world could use less cross-dressing
and turn straight to the cross,
but we gloss over transgressing
and call trans-haters lost.
The world could use a lot more Jesus
and fewer cruel jihads;
instead we let the the devil lead us
to serve other gods.
The world could use less one-armed bandits,
and fewer crooks with two,
as well as fewer propagandists
who try to spin the truth.
The world could use more ash-smeared foreheads
before Eastertide
and a lot less nuclear warheads
made so people die.
Unless we build solar panels by the legions
and wind farms ten abreast,
we’ll be wearing sandals in the polar regions
and snorkels in Key West.
We should place less hope in presidents
who can’t solve every woe,
and let’s repress our own attempts
to make the post a show.
Let’s stop making fun of leaders
and show them respect;
let us render unto Caesar
when we write a check.
The world could use more arboretums
to save earth’s diverse plants,
and far more religious freedom,
so saints can take a stance.
We need folks who pray for leaders
instead of showing scorn,
and people loving as lay preachers,
teaching Christ is born.
The world should stop rebranding sin
and promoting vice:
now perversion and abortion
are known as human rights.
The world could use a few less pronouns
and reinstate two genders,
for men who put on women’s gowns
are nothing but pretenders.
Plus, the world should be ashamed
of its Netflix binging,
streaming Hunger and Squid Games.
and not even blinking.
The world could use far less revenge
and far more repenting,
for we all could use a friend
and far less offending.
The world could use fewer mean tweets,
more folks who wax poetic;
we need more teens who eat their wheats,
and fewer vaccine skeptics.
And whether British or Chinese,
let’s stop disagreeing;
let’s work as one to stop disease,
and bolster our wellbeing.
Believe me, we could use less wars,
tarot cards and ouija boards,
and we should ignore the hoax
of tea leaves and horoscopes.
And all the folks who dip their big toe,
clicking on blue chips or crypto,
should know with abject certainty
that love is the best currency.
We need less speech that’s labeled “hate”
by people who don’t want debate;
they stifle folks who disagree
and dare to plug “diversity.”
The world could use far less misfortune,
and yet we choose to bless abortion,
but all who advocate the crime
live lives saved by their moms in time.
The world could use more voices going
to the polls with ranked-choice voting;
instead of opting for the lesser evil,
let’s learn we can agree on people.
We should go back to dolls with cooties
rather than our Call of Dutys,
we need less quarrels and more compacts,
and to put down our Mortal Kombat.
The world needs less Assassin’s Creed,
fewer folks on grass and weed,
passing classes that they need
by bribing teachers to agree.
We need more folks who donate organs
just to lower total orphans,
and let’s slap warnings on our sore thumbs
that our phones play with endorphins.
We need less teens who long for sex
trying to be seen by text,
tweeting out their teats and pecs
and preening on the latest tech.
The world could use less slot machines
and more Shabbats from TV screens,
fewer teenage drama queens,
and men who like to mock Marines.
The world could use a few more breaths
from people quitting cigarettes,
folks unafraid to take twelve steps
before they’re led unto their deaths.
Let’s give away more beds and meals
to those who cannot pay for pills
and lower marked-up medical bills
so high they make us all fall ill.
We need fewer docs who will prescribe
doc-assisted suicide,
telling patients they can die,
when it’s God who should decide.
The world has monks with months in jail
while politicians do prevail
with lawyers who spent years at Yale
fighting for them tooth and nail.
The world could use a lot more wisdom
from authorities who listen
instead of these two-party systems
where people argue over dictums.
The world needs fewer super PACs
that seduce our bureaucrats
and congressmen who lose their slacks
while the country’s at collapse.
The world could use less drunken dudes
in fewer firewater feuds,
and pols in Cancun like Ted Cruz
while Texas temps are down to two.
We need fewer coups and battles drawn
and fewer countries spied upon,
but China, know our eyes are on
autonomy down in Taiwan.
The world could use more arbitration
instead of arms accumulation,
for every nuclear escalation
ebbs us toward annihilation.
The world could use less global stasis,
moguls folding in Las Vegas,
and Chernobyls causing cases
of radiation leaks in places.
We should rush to disavow
a world that’s lush with mushroom clouds,
crushed beneath a starless shroud
where children shriek and scream aloud.
We need more saving and less spending
like a worldwide doomsday’s pending,
till our debts are beyond mending
and we end with payday lending.
The world needs fewer checks that bounce
as well as off-shore bank accounts
collecting funds in such amounts
that accountants can’t keep count.
Use the fortunes of stock brokers
to support our organ donors,
cut short addiction for our smokers,
and end abortion with the voters.
The world needs less abortion pills
distorting who lives and who’s killed,
where folks can order refills till
their future children’s blood is spilled.
We need less cinemas with seven screens
showing Halloweens and Scream,
inserting skin in certain scenes,
so teens can sin between their jeans.
Perhaps it’s time we part gene pools
to give head starts to propagules;
we need more smarts and fewer fools,
and finer arts to mark our schools.
Let’s view dilemmas through a prism
of wisdom and not cynicism
so to reduce the skew of schisms
like rampant anti-semitism.
The world could use less press against
the congressmen and presidents
who, in their first address, attempt
to lessen voters’ hesitance.
We need fewer calls to “rock the libs!”
or condemn conservatives,
and fewer pols who all call dibs
on skirting laws for relatives.
Congress needs less elephants and asses
in the one percent of classes
moving slow as cold molasses
unless they’re spending all our taxes.
The world could use a few less stoners
and folks judging other voters;
flood the planet with blood donors.
and let us love all of the loners.
We need less folks who bristle at woe
and more whistleblowers;
more epistles like Thoreau’s,
dismissing missile throwers.
Each conflict has led to vets
left beset by their regrets,
quick to pick up cigarettes
and collect high liquor debts.
We need less madames and more moms,
less assassins, Vietnams,
let’s stop dropping atom bombs,
put down arrows, pick up palms.
The world could use fewer James Bonds
seeing countries spied upon,
and exchange its QAnon
for far more Monty Python.
The world could use less naked pecs
in pictures that are rated X,
more men who pray in the narthex
and fewer who will pay for sex.
The world needs more poetics dreaming
and a lot less Netflix streaming;
let’s relax with books for reading
and learn something that’s redeeming.
We need less drunken bellies filled with ale,
disfunction and families that fail,
junk on tellies, in the mail,
and more veggies telling tales.
The world could use more clerisy with queries
adhering to our presbyteries
than paranoid conspiracy theories
fueled by eerie TV series.
The world needs more recycling spots,
far more Bibles and less slots,
fewer kettles calling pots,
and far fewer murder plots.
We need fewer fancy platitudes
and more proactive gratitudes;
let’s act out the beatitudes
and practice better attitudes.
The world could use far less polluting,
fewer reckless, ruthless shootings,
and lawyers who live off of suing,
causing officers’ undoing.
We need fewer deaths and fewer diggers
due to cigarettes and liquors;
let’s lower debts and put down triggers
and stop the threats to vets and vicars.
We need more teens who wait for sex
and drivers who can wait to text,
so neither end up with regrets
when they reflect on their wrecks.
And the world could use less teens
trying to be figurines
because they see the glamour queens
we Photoshop on magazines.
Let’s watch less pornography
and not sneak off to Double Tree
with a rubber or Plan B
to commit adultery.
We need fewer men with fantasies
of other women’s mammaries,
ruling their homes like Rameses
till their entire family leaves.
And tell me, who’s the genius, please,
who thought up convenience fees,
which pretend to bring us ease
but only bring us to our knees!
The world could use less cops sitting,
checking out their stock listings,
and a lot more more job listings
to put a stop to shoplifting.
We need less churches built like theaters
and more shepherds and sheep feeders,
far more servants and less leaders,
fewer Pharisees, more Peters.
If each thing we say and preach
is designated as hate speech,
how can people e’er be teached
or evil leaders be impeached?
We need less greenhouse gas polluting
and to end each last mass shooting,
plus fewer Facebook users spewing
untrue things till our undoing.
The world should not be resorting
to torment like waterboarding
since torture’s never as rewarding
when it leads to broader warring.
The world needs fewer lotto jackpots
giving false hope like the mascots
of the rigged Chicago Black Sox
throwing games for lowdown crackpots.
The world could use a lesser dose
of anything that’s high fructose,
before we all get diagnosed
with diabetes, tipo dos.
We need more folks who act like Linus,
and give out all their gold like Midas,
who hold that love always unites us
like that saint of old, Aquinas.
The world could use less campaign speeches
and more folks who champion freedom;
not legislators in the sheets
with lobbyists per diem,
and if congresspeople refuse to reach
across the aisle, let’s unseat ’em –
we need living democracy
and not a mausoleum!
We don’t need young adults residing
at their parents’ place,
texting others to their liking,
staying up too late –
spending all their days applying
for funds from the state;
the world needs men who are providing,
not grown neonates.
Stop treating bodies as consumables
that die from manmade causes,
then throwing costly funerals
with thousand-dollar boxes
leaching from the tomb to earth,
spewing harmful toxins,
so the cycle is renewable
and others die of poxes!
The world should stop ignoble warring
and heed all the glowing warnings
that have grown while we’re ignoring
the advent of global warming –
seas are growing, coal is forming
holes in ozone layers pouring
radiation that’s deforming –
all because we say it’s boring.
If each leader in our races
promises that he will place his
palm upon the Bible’s pages,
open for his oath in phrases,
then forego his oval base’s
cozy and palatial spaces,
just to go to remote places,
seeing all the voters’ faces,
showing them his social graces,
noting the tones of their cases –
maybe folks would crow his praises,
scholars compose untold pages,
and the globe would grow his wages
for bestowing hope in places!
O, I know what this world could use –
more time with nieces and nephews,
less sin cities, more Blues Clues,
and more time spent walking…
in each other’s shoes.
