United States Presidents Acquire a Staff Infection

This is a pun. The staph indicated by "staff" is staphylococcus aureus, which is the cause of staph infection. A staff infection is when the people you concede to including on your cabinet as President of the United States for securing votes and campaign contributions represent entrenched special interests that have been occupying cabinets since cabinets have existed. And over time those cabinet positions have been verily guaranteed as a formality of being allowed to state one's desire to run publicly and most of all legitimately.

This is our time

The wounded skeletons are tapping at the glass. This is the soundtrack to our destruction. To imagine a landscape in ruins and to imagine a life are two disparate entities. "Remain calm and carry on" is an old adage told by a proud people to maintain their dignity through flagging moments of insecurity, destruction, war. What is it that we tell ourselves in this time? We have become complacent upon interactivity as a means of passing the dead time that now encompasses our life. We say nothing outside of the usual pathological flinging and screaming that defines a perfectly atomized hominid zoo animal separated from any meaningful context by a wall of alien onlookers.

"What are you?" he says.

"I am a casualty of consciousness." I reply.

I am self-sufficient

I found an old book of poetry that I wrote. This is the final and only one worth sharing due to its brevity and wit.

I am self sufficient.

I can cook for myself.

I can clean for myself.

I am self sufficient.

I can pay my bills.

I can balance my paycheck.

I am self sufficient.

I can love myself.

I can comfort myself.

I can hold myself. 

I can talk to myself.

I can fool myself ...

that I am self sufficient.