Sometimes the poet captures the absurdities of political life through a metered presensentation. Sometimes through prose. many times naught.
The late Dr. Seuss was one of my inspirations as a young person, his style still appeals to me today as a 50 something.
I hope some of you have a little fun today and know that it's all pretty silly....
Leader of the Fee World
You too can be the President!
Bush makes us ALL look good.
from CEO to transient...
(You'd do it if you could)
If you can't read the local rag
That's O.K....! Just grab a flag!
then boast and bully brash and brag
with a Texas drag and a bowleg swag...
See how easy it all is ?
You really need not be a whizzz.
Just blink and scowl and scratch your skull
And say big words like... subliminiminal
So when you lay your head to rest...
The leader of the world...
You'll know you've done your very best!
Your visions all empearled...
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SS Summons
Greetings to the Neocons who think in obscurity!
The rally cry for y'all has come in Social Security.
"the fund is broke" "the young will slave" from now to maturity
Bush and Congress will save us all... (with all impunity)
Some say Bush has brains to fix it
Like a monkey to a biscuit
Right wing wish to "86" it
Corporate hog trough....Trust Fund brisket...
Raise the retirement to 82?
So fat cat dividends will reap beaucoup?
Privatize and Fed voodoo
1929 Deja Vu...
Corporate shills licking their chops
Lobbyist armies polishing props
Mutual fund managers dipping their sops
Dow Jones junkies pulling the stops
Working class servitude blind to the storm
Medicare benefits fall from the norm
Seniors now paranoid of all this reform
Media locusts blurrrrrr like a swarm
F.D.R. wherefore art thou? Come hither from the grave!
For you know how Republicans know not how to behave.
We fight the Robber Barons yore...the Pirates and The Knave!
To rally New Deal working men...tis worthy still to save!
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Happy Entrails to You
This is a poem I wrote when President Bush went to Europe in February 2005 and told Jacques Chirac that he needed a good hand on the ranch.
"He needs a good cowboy" down on the Ranch?
So now he's recruiting in Brussels and France?
They're snickering in Paris
Guffaws in New York
The White House is praying
he doesn't uncork.
Hop-a long Cassidy sure would be proud
to screen for a cowpoke in Belgium...out loud!
Someone should whisper that this aint the crowd
for ropin' and ridin' and fields that need plowed.
Maybe he'll find one in Mainz or Moscow
someone like Festus ... to serve up the chow?
or someone immortal like legend John Wayne
who likes enchiladas and bordeaux champagne.
We thought that this trip was a trip to amend
the rift of the allies of whom we offend
and not of a nature to again condescend
for cowboys in Europe...I don't recommend!
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American RapSody
Leave no child with a dime
public schools...the liberal crime
private vouchers ...so sublime
Shock Jocks! Fox News! On Primetime
Mission accomplished ...mission complete
deficit spending balance sheet
safe America...explosive Iraq
Fallujah in an air attack
Rag head niggas in a Baghdad coma
Texas homeboy with a Yale diploma
Honky hoods in Oklahoma
Neo-conservative carcinoma
Corporate welfare made fo' the rich
Christian values... aint they a bitch?
Propaganda with a right wing pitch
Yo Dawg you aint left with a stitch
social security evolution
Bushielicious smirks a solution
sign a writ of execution
American Bloodlust Revolution...