{"id":8191,"date":"2013-01-28T08:38:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T14:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2013-01-28T08:38:04","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T14:38:04","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-pro-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-pro-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: PRO-CHOICE?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"rocks\"<\/a>
Weapons of mass destruction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

PRO-CHOICE?
\nThere are so many ways to take lives:
\nYou can do it with bombs, bats, or knives.
\nA big rock or a fist\u2019ll
\nServe as well as a pistol:
\nIt\u2019s a wonder that mankind survives.<\/p>\n

From the archive:<\/em><\/p>\n

TIME TO KILL
\nA man had a row with his mate
\nAnd decided to speed up her fate.
\nHe thought that his wife
\nMight enjoy afterlife
\nAnd he knew that he couldn’t wait.<\/p>\n

There were myriad ways he might bag her —
\nBow and arrow, blunt object, or dagger,
\nOr poison or pills —
\nFor there’s so much that kills
\n(The possibilities made him stagger).<\/p>\n

There were hanging and gassing and worse —
\nThe methods too great to rehearse —
\nAnd that’s just if he tried
\nTo fake suicide,
\nFor murders were much more diverse.<\/p>\n

A compendium of deaths accidental
\nHolds drowning and falling essential,
\nIncludes hit and run
\nAnd cleaning a gun,
\nAnd a long list of acts providential.<\/p>\n

He thought he’d give toxins a try,
\nBut the chemist had several to buy
\nAnd he couldn’t decide
\nAmong cyanide
\nArsenic, strychnine, and lye.<\/p>\n

He considered a venomous snake,
\nAs well as a time-triggered cake:
\nA bomb (tick, tick, tick)
\nWould sure do the trick,
\nBut what kind of a cake should he bake?<\/p>\n

A pillow case stuffed in her face
\nCould be counted to leave not a trace,
\nBut a bat and a brick
\nAnd a sharpened ice pick
\nAre weapons that all have their place.<\/p>\n

And, if shotguns had been all the rage,
\nHe would have bogged down on the gauge.
\nThus, before he could choose
\nThe best weapon to use,
\nHis poor partner had died of old age.
\n(1985)<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s limerick:<\/em><\/p>\n

MARCH
\nNo, their numbers are never reported
\n(If they were, they\u2019d be greatly distorted),
\nBut this year in the throng,
\nFifty million-plus strong,
\nAre the souls of the children aborted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: PRO-CHOICE? There are so many ways to take lives: You can do it with bombs, bats, or knives. A big rock or a fist\u2019ll Serve as well as a pistol: It\u2019s a wonder that mankind survives. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Your Weekly Politickle: PRO-CHOICE? - Politickles","description":"Weapons of mass destruction Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: PRO-CHOICE? There are so many ways to take lives:"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[101,4040,54,1787,110,4104,4105],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abortion","tag-gun-control","tag-gun-rights","tag-obamacare","tag-pro-choice","tag-ways-to-die","tag-ways-to-kill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}