Monthly Archives: December 2016

The Reason for the Season (or December 25th?)

Let me take this opportunity To recollect the reason Why, from the dawn of history We celebrate this season In the summer and the autumn We've been filling up the larder Well aware that in the winter Air is colder, life is harder So we gather to recall No matter how the wind is blowing [...]

Good Will Shunting

The overeducated Left Have lost their way again Shakespeare, and his narrow views Will have no place at Penn His portrait has been taken From the spot where it once hung No more his visage, studied. No more his sonnets sung The faculty, three years ago Decided this was right Though they left it to [...]

Quiet Holiday

It’s been a quiet week, at last I wish that were the norm Alas, I speculate it’s just The calm before the storm Every Chief Exec enjoys A time when pundits swoon But I expect a hurricane And not a honeymoon Their former river of restraint Is measured now in ounces And it won’t take [...]

Taking a Vote and Counting it Twice

I think you all recall To what the following refers: “In the year of the improbable… The impossible” occurs It was Vin describing Gibby As he rambled like a wreck Round the bases with a homer That he’d clobbered off of “Ek” I watched in great amazement There at old Chavez Ravine And it was, [...]

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