The Ass in the Hat

The Ass in the Hat

The sun did not shine, it was too wet to play, so we stay in the house all that cold, cold, wet day.  I sat there with Kim.  We sat there we two, and I said ‘how I wish we had something to do.’ And then something went BUMP! How that bump made us jump! And we saw him! The Ass in the Hat. And he said to us, ‘why do you sit at home like that?  I know some good games we could play.’  ‘I know some new tricks,’ said the Ass in the Hat.  And our governor said, ‘No! No! Make that Ass go away!  Tell that Ass in the Hat you do NOT want to play.’  He should not be here.  He should not be about.  He should not be here when the Coronavirus is out! 

‘Now, now, have no fear.  Have no fear!’ Said the Ass.  ‘My tricks are not bad’, said the Ass in the Hat. Why, we can have lots of good fun with these guys, with a game that I call up-up-up with more lies. ‘Have no fear!’ Said the Ass.  ‘I will not let you fall.  I will hold you up high as I stand on a ball, with a book on one hand and a cup on my Hat, but that is not  ALL I can do,’ said the Ass.

‘Look at me! Look at me! Look at me now!’ Said the Ass. It is fun to have fun, but you have to know how.  I can hold up illegals and the WHO and Ukraine! I can hold up their funds! And do so with no shame! I can fire the Generals and a few Congressmen too! But that is not all, oh no, not all I can do…’ that is what the Ass said, then he fell on his head!  He came down with a bump from up there on the ball, and Kim and I we saw ALL the things fall!  Now look what you did! Said the Gov to the Ass.  Now look at this house, look at this, look at that.  ‘You should not be here when our real leaders are not.  You get out of this house!’ 

‘But I like it here, oh, I like how this ends, said the Ass in the Hat to the Fox and its friends . I will NOT go away. I do NOT wish to go, and so, said the Ass in the Hat, so…so…I will show you another good game that I know. You will see something new, two things and I call them Thing One and Thing Two. And they said, ‘How do you do?’ ‘Would you like to shake hands with Thing One and Thing Two? And Kim and I did not know what to do. Have no fear said the Ass in the Hat, these Things are GREAT Things. One is a Bill and the other a Book. The Bill makes me King and the Book’s worth a look. It explains that this virus is not what it seems. It’s all the fault of Barack’s silly dreams. The problem is bigly. The virus so squiggly. But fear not and don’t fuss. It’s lucky for us, that the Ass in the Hat says he’s a genius.

Kim and I are not pleased.  We know not what to do.  The Ass in the Hat is on screen every day for an hour or two.  March, April and May come and go day by day.  We stay at our home, going out seems unwise.  We Zoom hither and yon with our family and friends.  We keep a brave face and hide the tears in our eyes. The Ass in the Hat may have ruined our life, but we cannot give up, though it cuts like a knife.  We need to RESIST, for our country we dread, that the Ass in the Hat get tossed out on his head.  The fun wasn’t fun and the games were not merry, the harm he has done is nothing but scary.  

For November we wait, its one day at a time.  If we don’t get him out we’ll have nothing but crime. The people go hungry, no jobs for the masses.  The fix will take decades and will rip at the classes.  And one day soon this will end and we’ll wake from this nightmare. With the Ass in the Hat making off without care. Sneaking out the back door, pretending as always, that HE won the day.  The votes and the crowds surely wanted him more. The saddest of things is that when he goes down, the rest of the  world will proclaim him a clown. The Ass in the Hat will go down in the books as the demon of truth and the champion of shnooks.