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Off in a few minutes to deliver Meals on Wheels, something that the Speaker of the House wants to terminate. Those old people are moving pretty slow, they can't see too well, and they aren't very strong, but Paul Ryan is sure they can get their own food without any help whatsoever. That's how he was raised: no help from the government whatsoever. Or at least, that's probably what he tells himself every night when he goes to bed. The reality was quite different.

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Meals on Drones


Flying in low, dodging kudzu,
Fooled, sometimes, by inaccurate maps,
Faulty instructions:
"Left" when it should have been "right"
But the meals come in hot;
Good Southern cooking,
With lots of gravy,
And all the green colors muted.

Just like the good old days
When volunteers drove to your door,
But the drones don't say "hi",
Or "hot day today, isn't it."
Surely the programmers could work that in
With the next upgrade.