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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Hand in hand, at table sitting It’s proper, right and meet and fitting That on Thanksgiving we all share Gratitude in quiet prayer But I say we should give a roar For all the things we’re thankful for And raise our voices and the mood In fine, full-throated gratitude For this great land that we [...]
I wish I had the lyric wit Of Ogden Nash or Byron To write the words of wisdom That this moment is requirin But though I cant approximate Whats Nashian or Byrony I can still to call attention To the most exquisite irony A selfish predilection For opacity and secrecy Coupled with a staff That [...]
The war was dragging on a bit They needed lots more men They offered me a bonus If I volunteered again. Well, with the cost of livin’ And my business on the skids That money made a dif’rence To my honey and the kids I was happy with the deal we made And I was [...]
The siren song of politics Sings like a serenade But some can’t shake the feeling That somehow they’re being played Saying Clinton was unbeatable No matter who we’d choose So the GOP let Trump prevail So that they wouldn’t lose Folks I used to trust Have said the fix was always in When Trump announced [...]
With our cities in convulsions And economies in tatters Don’t you think we ought to focus On the stuff that really matters For I doubt there’ll be much impact From the dirt the country learns If you trade a thousand emails For some income tax returns Yes, I guarantee his books are bound In rich [...]
There are many epic battles That have lived in psalm and song From young David and Goliath To Godzilla and King Kong There’s the Bruins and the Trojans Moriarty versus Holmes The Knicks against the Celtics And the critics with my poems There was Slytherin v. Gryffindor In battles so fantastic Samsung versus Apple And [...]