United States Postal Service Announces New Patriotic Series of Stamps: “Heroes of the January 6th Storming” will be the Initial Release

(Spoof News Services 21July2026: Washington): The United States Postal Services announced today the issuance of a series of stamps “Heroes of the New America”.

The first series of stamps shall depict the ‘Martyrs of January 6” to commemorate the heroic actions of patriots who stormed Sleepy Joe Hollow to rectify “the stolen election”.

All patriots arrested were pardoned and given a pension for their “patriotic actions”.

The next two stamps in the making will celebrate the annexation of Greenland, Canada, Panama, Venezuela and Iran as the newest states of the United States.

RKS LITERATURE: Beware of Unbridled Success: Letter from Pharoah Amasis to Polycrates Tyrant of Samos (Herodotus)

‘How pleasant it is to learn that a friend, a man who is bound to one by ties of mutual hospitality, is faring so well. Nevertheless, your outstanding good fortune is not a cause of unconfined joy to me – for I well know that the gods are given to envy. What I wish for myself, and for those I care about – if I may put it like this – is a career that blends good fortune with the occasional stumble. Better to go through life experiencing bad as well as good luck than to know nothing but success. I have never yet known nor heard tell of anyone who enjoyed prosperity so total that he did not ultimately come to a bad end and lose everything that had previously sustained him That being so, I would advise you, in the face of your good fortune, to adopt the following policy. Think hard and identify the object that is most precious to you, the one that would cause you the most heartache to lose – and then throw it away, some place where there is no chance of its ever coming back into human hands.’

Herodotus (b 484 BCE-425 BCE), “The Madness of Cambyses”

RKS British Literature: Hatred of the Brabant and Flemish Mercenaries (Henry Gilbert)

The Englishmen hated these foreign invaders with a hatred too deadly for mercy, and as they shot them down they knew their arrows were loaded with vengeance for unutterable deeds of murder and cruelty committed upon defenceless women, little children, and unweaponed men, when these marauding wretches had spread like plague through the land under the banner of King John, bringing ruin, fire, death, and starvation to hundreds of humble homes and peaceful villages.

Henry Gilbert, “Robin Hood”, 1912

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds):COVID’s Health Care Castes

COVID’s Health Care Castes

The Untouchables are the unvaccinated

Stay away

Penalize

Trivialize

Criticize

Public health authorities the new KKK

Socially lynching so quietly without killing

Then the One Shotters

Good boys and girls waiting for the second jab

To avoid being a social scab

Then the Two Shotters

Media labelled as wise, intelligent and caring

I’m so fatigued of manipulation and scaring

Not playing the game hammered by incessant and frantic advertising paid for with our tax dollar

 and if you protest and holler

You are no better and free than a dog in a collar

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): The Incontinence of Kayne West

The Incontinence of Kayne West

A man desperately craving attention

Has done it again

This time he has gone Ye Ye all over himself!

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): The Good Old Days When the Berlin Wall Was Standing

The Good Old Days When the Berlin Wall Was Standing

Being a Party member is a daunting responsibility

Although being truthful the proletarian view us with undeserved hostility

Daring to compare us to a new sort of nobility

What a scheming lack of capitalist civility!

We serve our mighty land and people

Merely a short Zil ride from the Kremlin steeple

We labour day and night in offices even in farthest Georgia

The wonderful land of Comrade Stalin

Just because we have a five room flat off the square

Just illustrates how much for the people we care

Why then your sarcastic stare?

A Zil with a chauffeur

Is provided because I’m no loafer

After all transportation is required to meet with Iraqi foreign minster Mr. Soffer

I am nothing but a hard-working man

So why the snarky comments about my Black Sea tan?

And that expensive Swiss fan

And my suits from France

Well, they are needed for an occasional diplomatic prance

Not for my own personal prestige to enhance

Toiling so busily for the good of the masses we require our own stores

Not because of corrupt mores

That you dare suggest make us rotten to the core

We remain members of the proletarian kind

And your never-ending litany of unfounded accusations are but a figment of a duped mind

To brazenly suggest to a bourgeoise lifestyle we have fell

I respectfully say you can go to Hell

Ask any of our folk

Suggest to them we have unwarranted privileges and they’ll take it as a ill humoured joke

And perhaps deliver a warning poke

We are no different from them

Our happy youth would heartily agree

if not

Do you think I would expel them to a cold Siberian degree

This damn Solzhenitsyn chap has created an awful flap

With his groundless crap

But our censors gave his knuckles a good rap

So he was exiled from our map

Every citizen is free like me

Oh, why can’t you see through the propaganda of the CIA

And for once agree with me?

All we do is administer

And if the skilled like me can be a Politburo minister

What the hell is so sinister?

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): Big Bird a Member of Hitler Youth (Covid Memories)

Big Bird a Member of Hitler Youth (COVID MEMORIES)

Yes, a cute and a seemingly innocent and loveable character is Big Bird

But seemed recently to choke on a big less than impartial turd

saying on 6November in a Twitter Tweet “get vaccinated and be safe”

On my ass his comments chafe

He will soon be forming a “korps” called “Vaccination Safe”

Turn in your parents and all who fail to buy into vaccination nirvana

Brainwashing children to succumb to the jab

Boom boom boom

You don’t do what we order

You are destined to a deadly doom

Welcome to the brainwashed elite

Goosestepping and acting far less than polite

the walls have ears

careful of those little dears!

Robert K. Stephen

RKS Poetry Anthology (All We Get Are The Coffee Grinds): Are We Looking at the End of the World? (COVID MEMORIES)

Are We Looking at the End of the World? (COVID MEMORIES)

Contemplating Omicron is the end of it

Personally, I say this is but the beginning of this shit

Just you wait until Ebola morphs into the grand plague

Coming from those poor than poorer African countries it could be said colonizers raped

And just perhaps on YOUR funeral casket their revenge will be draped

You pillage, ignored and plundered

You may be soon felled by their viral thunder!

Robert K. Stephen

RKS British Literature: The King’s Justice Worth No More Than a Roast Pippin (Henry Gilbert)

‘Softly, good marshal,’ replied Robin with a laugh. ‘Ye know who I am, and ye know that I reckon the king’s justice or his marshal at no more worth than a roast pippin. Thy justice!’. He laughed scornfully. ‘What is it? A thing ye sell to the rich lords and the evil-living prelates, while you give naught of it to the poor whom they grind in the mire. Think ye if there were equal justice for rich and poor in this fair England of ours that I and my fellows would be here? Justice! By the rood!’

Henry Gilbert, “Robin Hood”, 1912

RKS LITERATURE: “I Hate and I Love”: Bright White Teeth Cleaned by Urine

Because he has bright white teeth Egnatius whips out a tooth flash on all possible

& impossible) occasions.

You’re in court. Counsel for defence

concludes a moving peroration (Grin.)

At a funeral,

on all sides heartbroken

mothers weep for only sons. (Grin.)

Where, when, whatever the

place or time – grin. It could be a sort of “tic”. If so it’s

a very vulgar tic, Egnatius,

& one to be rid of.

A Roman, a Tiburtine or

Sabine, washes his teeth.

Well-fed Umbrians & over

fed Etruscans wash theirs

daily. The dark Lanuvians

(who don’t need to), and we

Veronese. All wash our teeth…

But we keep them tucked in.

We spare ourselves the nadir of

inanity – inane

laughter. You come from Spain. Spaniards

use their morning urine

for tooth-wash. To us that blinding

mouthful means one thing &

one only – the quantity of

urine you have swallowed.

 “I Hate and I Love”, Catullus (84 BCE-54 BCE)