Melange

 A funky mix

Congested and contested (satellites in space)

Consultation and consent (description of democracy)

Lira / rial / lari (italy, iran, maldives) liar

Red: rapid economic development

History and news and futurism, past, present, and prospective

Metallica and Elastica, Monica and Erica

Black metal and bowel movement and big money

Dizzy at Disneyland, debt and doubt, depression and despair

Cambodian poverty line: less than .93 (93 cents) a day

Sicily: a kick in the dick; asking for an ass-kicking

CR, camp royaneh, Colorado rockies, consensus reality, 

       code red, congressional representation

Muddy waters, making clear, that he wants clarity

The future is bright (the sun will get bigger)

Fell a frigate? fuggedaboutit

Daguerreotype of a dagger

Morphine and other drugs: calm and comfortable

Dr., Dominican Republic, dignity/respect, 

      dietary restrictions, death row, and death rattle

Philo Farnsworth and the Popular Front

resident president's resonance

Commander in chief, chancellor by chance

premier, president, pope, prime minister

Magnates with magnetic personalities

strength, honor, integrity, truth, respect, compassion

black lives matter, black like me - by John Howard Griffin

Ice, justice, malice, cowardice, office

immigration and customs enforcement

inclusion, compassion, equality 

Malcolm X and Malcolm Forbes

harder, better, faster, stronger - daft punk

Eat clean, intelligently

exercise, Texas, and sex

Stop scrolling, start sweating

  Git r done, just do it, get on with it, no time like the present

Mom and madonna

Dad and dog appreciation day

Katy Perry and kitty purry

Bruce Jenner and Jen Brucer

Miley Cyrus and Smiley Iris

Iced tea and thought

fever, cough, shortness of breath, fatigue, achiness

pucinelli, pacelli, pinocchi

Quick question, quietly queer, quickening quicksilver

“long in the tooth” (not a vampire reference), from horses gums receding with age

equity, equality, equanimity, equable

fomo, nimby, icymi, fubar, snafu

bathog, blessed art thou holy omni god

Groundhog Century (!), Groundhog Day, good/decent

Soul rotation, metempsychosis, get out of my face

the dna of my soul, god's body, a modern god

the soles of my shoes/feet, and soldiers, and sole custody

weeping deeply in your sleep, without a peep

  leaping at the sound of beeping

pain, loss, grief

4 concurrent crises: covid pandemic, economic,

                                racial, and climate change

also, there are 560 wildfires currently burning, in California !!!

Church music: heavenly choir

Blue Heron, anonymous 4, and the Tallis scholars

Tuvan throat singing, and the gyuto monks

grief, outrage, despair

Zen emphasizes intuition and meditation

tuition and medication and coming to fruition

the more you light your lighter, the lighter your lighter gets,

   until it's too light to light :-)

great or grating?   tanks and troops

pulse, repulse, compulsion, and impulse

Lebron in Hebron, Manama or Panama?

Of mice and men, flowers for Algernon

Some lists: military rank hierarchy, state mottos, popes, chinese rulers

When choosing between 2 evils, I try the one I’ve never tried before -mae west

sickness, illness, disease, ailments (sida)(aids)

Growth or development, growth or perfection

bias and discrimination is b.a.d.

birth and death, Beginning And enD, beelzebub antichrist devil

big and demonic, "600 pounds of sin" (- GD, dire wolf)

life of the mind, lord of the rings

belonging, possession, property

free or fettered, enslaved, incarcerated, imprisoned (I and I)

friends n family, fossil fuels, french fries, flash floods, firefighters

five fingers, fire and fury, fighting fit, foxy female

rotation and revolution and revelation and evolution and love

apok, apocrypha, and apocalypse

Shenzhen, and Schengen area

harping and carping, factious and fractious

vsad, voter suppression and disenfranchisement

moon men, sedition and subversion, actors and activists

republican convention and respiratory conditions

don't agonize, organize

burgers with Borges

arm wrestling with Louis Armstrong in LA

Gattica and Attica, daft in africa, playing polo with polio

ants in your pants in France

making Titian sign your petition

un poco loco, amazingly crazy, plainly insane

vampire versus verses

cs lewis, cs monitor, coughing/sneezing

   Christian Science, Clive Staples

solutions to pollution, ragin' cajun

same damn food: ham, lamb, clams, jam, and yams

a superior interior

a plot to be shot by a bot at a certain spot,

    having fought to not get caught, flee to be free

souls on the dole

the goal? pole in the hole!

elephant in his element, with a honky donkey

a box of rocks, actual facts, cut in the gut, mudblood

Lincoln winkin', at a sexy Mexican 

magic (and tragic) pelagic act

German worm with the same name

taking back stolen stacks

mbs, mad bad sad

comedian, demon cia

putin, input, poutine, tinpot

Jesus on a unicycle