Kryptonite

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...

The Lie Detector

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...

All Politics is Local

I think Bernie is a madman And MS. Clinton is a liar But when I read this couplet I’m just preaching to the choir What she did deserves indicting And I’m mad because she ain’t While my lefty next-door neighbor Thinks the lady is a saint He’s a...

A Poem for Politicon

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...