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Suddenly, poisonously unhinged rhetoric began issuing forth from my television set

And I realized it had been co-opted by

Gasp!!!

Republicans!!

So, I did what any sane person would do

In my circumstances . . .

I quickly established a perimeter

Around my tv set

And I sprayed the entire area

Including the tv

with Lysol

Ortho

Oh, NO

And anything else I could think of to make it

Not grow

After which I smudged the entire surroundings

And prayed to all that is holy, sane and normal

Yes, I even called upon normal

(trying times call for exceptional acts)

That the devil seed–

Sinister and festering faux-orange sperm of Beelzebub–

Had been vanquished

Extinguished

Terminated

Liquidated

Eliminated, eradicated, obliterated

And annihilated

Before it was able to inveigle its grubby little finger-like roots

Into my sensibilities and my world.

Tim Konrad

2020.08.27