tweedle dum

Bibi and Ahmadinejad allied
to stoke the politics of fear and hate
each kept the other's voters terrified
to preserve his own power in the state
George Orwell knew a threat from overseas
could unify a polity at home
and many would give up their liberties
to cower under the PoliceState's dome
but their new president's more sane and sweet
Rouhani says we should negotiate
among the nations, Persia wants a seat
not a pariah squatting at the gate
Bibi has over-stayed his office lease
security's a lie 'til we're at peace

Humpty Trumpty

Trump noticed years ago, we prosper more
when Democrats are running the U.S.
but still he plays the OnePercenters' whore
and taunts the hungry with wretched excess
but Trickle-Down's still voodoo as Bush knew
the rich compete at squandering vast wealth
the many starve to over-feed the few
and Hartford's making bank on our poor health
we're all advanced when weal is earned by labor
and isn't hoarded by the idle rich
who wouldn't know what hammer, saw or spade's for
and make our government their tawdry bitch
but Trump's found leverage and wants his stay
until he's bought off, he won't go away

home court

if Riyadh's pawn in Cairo's worth his salt
he'll form a league with Jordan's king Abdullah
to bring the Libyan ISIS to a halt
a saner voice than Iran's angry Mullahs'
no Shia or Christian can lead this fight
the Umma would reject such intercession
a valid Mufti's gotta judge what's right
from inside the fighters' Sunni confession
what ISIL preaches isn't true Islam
and ought to be stamped out as heresy
and ISIL's fighters, not their victims damned
by their own scholars, not by you and me
Obama's got to let the Arabs lead
in this war, that's a role for a shaheed

evitable II

the senator from WallStreet does the will
of bankers who think they ought to dictate
who gets an office on Capital Hill
to operate the levers of the State
the little people make a lot of noise
and balk when she asserts she's next in line
but she's in tight with all the good old boys
and tells them to fall in like docile kine
Bill Clinton was a lukewarm Democrat
preferring to get his policy planks
from lobbyists employed by the fatcats
and trust his smile seduces file and rank
but Hillary's not challenged from the Right
instead it Bernie bearing Freedom's light

purpose

philosophy's neglected in the States
vocational schools lure students with cash
doctors of Law and Medicine find mates
while Wisdom's acolytes are slinging hash

but in the end, one can't buy happiness
and many who are crushed beneath their things
might have found greater joy possessing less
to chase the crown of knowledge, not of kings

to balance life with work remains elusive
careers can corrode souls as well as health
a boss' regimen can be abusive
if all your efforts are merely for wealth

an unexamined life's not worth the breath
that ticks away the hours from birth to death

evitable

the senator from WallStreet does the will
of bankers who think they ought to dictate
who fills the Congress on Capital Hill
and operates the levers of the State
the little people make a lot of noise
and balk when she asserts she's next in line
but she's in tight with all the good old boys
and tells them to fall in like docile kine
Bill Clinton was a lukewarm Democrat
preferring to get his policy planks
from lobbyists employed by the fatcats
and trust his smile seduces file and rank
but Hillary's not challenged from the Right
instead it Bernie bearing Freedom's light

looking forward

millenials won't pay a landline's fees
and are invisible when pollsters call
statistics can't predict what they can't see
no more than the darkside of the moon's ball

a liberated cohort's on the rise
untallied in the Parties' calculus
who aren't drinking in Fox News' lies
and have their own ideas of "them" and "us"

Fox brayed too soon Ohio had swung Red
and put McCain's campaign over the top
but it's Obama that came out ahead
and brought the Palin madness to a stop

a year's still time for flip-flops and meanders
before we get to hail president Sanders