PLOP, PLOP, FIZZ, FIZZ

  Oh, what a relief it is!

Remember that jingle? Remember how simple those times seemed to be? All it took to erase the headache, the upset stomach, the daily frets, was a magical tablet which was dropped into water, would fizz up said waters, and down it went. All gone!

Unfortunately, those days are long, long gone. In fact, many of us, particularly we elderly, feel that today we are living in a transplanted alien world or a parallel dimension, complete with different values - or lack thereof. How else to explain the reality of today, the everchanging details of which change, fizz, so fast that all we feel is the sting of the fizz but no relief in sight. Or taste. Or anything.

Ya' gotta' admit that the whole thing is bizarre. Ted Cruz, a sitting Senator from Texas - maybe that explains it - takes on that powerful and oh so dangerous fiend, Big Bird, even as he talks secession from the Union. I thought we had definitively answered that question a century and a half ago, but obviously we have some slow learners in the bunch. Perhaps Teddy boy fails to understand the power of history, of imperatives that will burp and bring forth another Civil War to preserve the Union, and G-d help us then, for the consequences will be dire indeed. Perhaps it is Ted whom we need to send back to Mexico. 

The fizz of that magic tablet is overcome, rendered useless by yet anther formerly impossible scenario of a former President of this country under investigation, along with his cabal buddies, re alleged treasonous actions and plotting. Any day now I expect a curtain  to be pulled back. There, in open display at Mar a Lago will be not a Wizard, but three ugly witches and wizards, oddly enough resembling Eric, Junior, Jared and Ivanka, busy boiling eyes of newt, chanting ditties, while Trump and his cabalists dance in the altogether, along with Lady Macbeth. Oh, Lord, where is that tablet now?

Need more? Most of us can remember going down to a local K Mart, a 122 year old company, and finding just what we needed. Well by end of year there will be SIX stores remaining. Fizz, anyone? In the era of warming and realities of global warming, we are now being told of a burst of polar cold, brrrr! coming at us. Where the hell are my gloves? 

An aggrieved deranged man demands things go his way - all the time - and if not, well, just change things around! Worse, he drags along with him the deluded thousands upon thousands who believe his lies, swallow them whole, die for them and of them, and this newfound epidemic, no, not COVID, but Trumpian Derangement, and political nefariousness, grows apace. One pol makes the statement, "There's a lot of hurt out there." Trifle understated, true nevertheless. One muses, about how much longer this country and its judicial system will last, at least in proper format - or is too late already?

Evidently Amazon delivers people now; witness the woman who jumped out of a van and then calmly plucked her phone out of the top of her shirt and called...whom? Another van? Amazon - to complain about delayed delivery, - a mystery! Wonder if we could find another tablet to fizz things up a bit. My headache and tummy ache.... 

And now we need an entire bottle if we are to obtain any relief at all. 

 " (DHS) Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas has issued a terror advisory amid a "heightened threat environment" across the United States.

"The United States continues to face a diverse and challenging threat environment as we approach several religious holidays and associated mass gatherings that in the past have served as potential targets for acts of violence," 

Yup, the cherry on top in this crazed world of ours. Hey! Was that the Bizzarro Superman flying by? It figures. Is this Tuesday? At least then I would know its Belgium! Oops, it is Thursday; hence, off to another plane! Plop, plop. Fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is - just not today!