Michael Ceraolo- Two Letters

2016:  Election Letter Number 1

Dear Electorate,

This week the failed candidate from the previous election

took on his party's front-runner in this election cycle,

                                                                             and

among many other things he cited

the current front-runner's many business failures

                                                                        Now

I strongly dislike both men,

                                        and

those who compare business to government

show they don't know very much about either

(save America and the world

from crappy metaphors and weak analogies)

                                                                   But

in the interest of fairness,

                                      and

to bring up something sure to be unheard

in media coverage of the speech,

I ask this question:

                              Which harmed more people,

the current candidate's business failures

or the previous candidate's business successes?

Letter About Robin Williams' Suicide

Dear Everyone,

Please stop

Stop the romantic bullshit about battling demons

Stop the romantic bullshit about the tears of a clown

Stop any other crappy metaphor you're tempted to use:

metaphors are supposed to increase, not decrease, understanding

Stop saying we shouldn't stigmatize mental illness

Stop using the term mental illness

If you want to be in any way useful,

call what he suffered from,

and what millions of others suffer from,

what it is:

                a brain disease,

                                        one 

that is all too often not treated correctly