In 8 weeks on the calendar Will come the day of choosing But just between the two of us It’s all a bit confusing Out here in California There are 16 propositions And advocates are crafting texts Explaining their positions And when the postman brings them You’re gonna find it’s liable The brochure that contains [...]
Spring will never come again No April without pain Each April the Emancipator's Slain Mothers, will there ever Be a Sunday in December When you will not Remember Remember November never passes Until I shed a tear Year after Year after Year And never in September Will I look into the sky Unless I ask [...]
The Republican Establishment Is lowering the flag They see the fight as hopeless And she’s got it in the bag The polls have been all over And they’re tailored to deceive But the ones that show him losing Are the ones that they believe Our candidates are cautious Cause they don’t know what to do [...]
The experts said the Brexit Would cause a Wall St crash. I put my dough in stocks And now I'm rolling in the cash They said that Jeb was ready His backing, deep and strong His war chest was enormous But I guess they got it wrong It widely was reported I remember one slow [...]
You could travel ‘round the planet Like that Spanish guy, Magell-ian* And you couldn’t find a country Or a leader more Orwellian. No we didn’t pay a ransom We just brokered a release Just like slavery is freedom Up is down and war is peace You can tell a grieving parent No, we really didn’t [...]
The telephone was quite a gift Ameches great invention Until, for our convenience We added the extension Then nosy little brothers To their sisters great chagrin Could pick up a receiver And discretely listen in Well, soon those sisters In pursuit of adolescent pleasures Resumed communications With effective counter measures They knew that when a [...]
According to John Kerry The spokesman for our nation Obstacles and challenges Face every generation In 1861 We struggled with a moral truth Our Civil War claimed scores of souls The flower of our youth Five decades of a century Saw blood enough to span it A battle with a cult of death That sought [...]
A number of years ago I read a movie script where the heroes were a couple of naïve space aliens who came to earth to play Major League baseball because it was the most beautiful game in the universe. Tension in the script came from an alien travel agent who pursued them because helping the [...]
If I dont peruse the papers If I dont turn up the sound If I just refuse to listen If I simply go to ground If I cancel my subscriptions And I forego all my flights Then decline your invitations And extinguish all the lights If I barricade the windows And decide to drop the [...]
After all the vitriol, shrill rhetoric And shouting The primaries have ended Its all over but the pouting Grandees of the GOP Wont go to Clevelands caucus Kids who cling to Bernie Promise Philly will be raucous Pundits say were in for some Unprecedented scrappin But being Im a poet I can see whats gonna [...]