I’m not one to make predictions So, considering the source, I feel safe to say I sense A new disturbance in the Force. A malevolent projection And we dare not speak its name Whose appetite for power Puts Maleficent to shame Whose attitude and ego Put her squarely on the shark side While accusing her [...]
If you’ve just read the Daily News You’re probably aware Its editors are skeptical And don’t think much of prayer They’ve had enough of platitudes Of homilies and preaching And say they’ll gladly do without So much of this beseeching The quiet moment when a soul Asks God to help another Is clearly inefficient So [...]
Thanksgiving is the day we share Gratefulness, in quiet prayer Hand in hand, at table, sitting Its proper, righteous, good, and fitting But I say we should give a roar For all the things were thankful for And raise our voices and the mood In fine, full-throated gratitude For this great land that we all [...]
Poets are required To communicate with brevity To get a message over With some synthesis and levity But how am I to summarize What I think this week means? An epidemic’s coming And we’ve thrown out the vaccines Our blimp has got a great big rip And no one brought the patches Arsonists are on [...]
In politics and poetry In statesmanship and rhyming Success is so elusive That it all comes down to timing With Jebs campaign in crisis And concern about his run The story breaks this week About remarks by 41? It strikes me as imprudent And alarmingly un-subtle While Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney May seek time for [...]
On this, the eve of ghoulishness Of witchery, of bleakness The media should ask itself, What is our greatest weakness? For creatures great and small That clearly lack some introspection Suffer from a process we call Natural Selection Unless they do, these journalists Of dignified distinction Like sabertooths and dinosaurs Are heading for extinction And [...]
No, I’m not a lie detector But can tell without much trying When a politician’s speaking It’s a good chance that they’re lying Some will ask us for forgiveness In our judgments, to be lenient For it’s hard to be forthcoming When the truth is inconvenient And today it’s clear and common In a politician’s [...]
I think Bernie is a madman And MS. Clinton is a liar But when I read this couplet Im just preaching to the choir What she did deserves indicting And Im mad because she aint While my lefty next-door neighbor Thinks the lady is a saint Hes a Hillary disciple And a Sanders devotee He [...]
To those who say we’re finished And our politics are broke I say you lack perspective And you just can’t take a joke We’re one ginormous family And like all fam’lies fight As one way toward arriving at A sense of wrong and right Contending for our country And I think from coast to coast [...]
The greatest thing That one can do Is make a friend Both good and true A partner that in triumph Will smile and help you share it A presence in the face of grief To hug and help you bear it So from my heart I tell you brother Make one friend-- Then make another [...]