I Don't Like Anybody
Very much.
Or so sang the Kingston Trio.
I do like my Giraffe friends
Very much.
But there are days when the following lyrics resonate:
They're rioting in Africa. There's strife in Iran.
What nature doesn't do to us will be done by our fellow man.
Wait, the Trickster tells us. Look at the big picture.
We are importing white folks from South Africa.
(We already have a South African running wild in the very White House.)
We used to import your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free.
That's so yesterday. Today we want your wealthy, your fawning, your uber-ego's yearning to bow down.
We are exporting billions of dollar's worth of Boeing airplanes to Saudi Arabia.
Maybe it's time to start composing condolence messages to Saudi families.
The Kingston trio again:
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud
For man's been endowed with a mushroom shaped cloud.
Nobody worries about nuclear war anymore. So many of the world's leaders toss that threat around like an empty balloon. It won't happen, and if it does the world is overpopulated and the entitled ones, the wealthy ones, have already built bunkers to survive. What do a few billion deaths matter so long as superior ego-driven smarties carry on? Don't forget they are thinking of offering American women $5,000. to have babies.
Besides, the mushroom-shaped cloud is ancient history. Now we have Super Bots, Artificial Generative Invincibles and Indestructibles that make tardigrades look like sissies. You've heard of tardigrades? Those water bears that can survive temperatures from near absolute zero to more than 300 degrees fahrenheit, that can tolerate pressures up to 6 times the ocean's depths, that can live for decades under total dehydration?
The Trio once more:
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans. The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs. South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't like anybody very much!
And then an email arrived from someone 3,000 miles away:
Hi Corinne,
Like most geniuses, you have more than a touch of magnificent madness. Your visionary, futuristic creatures are masterful, frightening, all the while possessing an otherworldly beauty. Congratulations! You've outdone yourself once again!.
And now I want to like Everybody
(well, almost everybody)
Very
Very
Much.
c. Corinne Whitaker 2025 and always
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