Monday, July 31, 2017

body politic

Melania had plastic surgery
but nothing could disguise that ugly lump.
Our Senate's gonna have to cut us free,
resecting the malignancy that's Trump.
For years, her arm's disfigured by this mass
that lately, starts to suppurate and swell.
By now, the wound's discolored, taut with gas;
she's doomed to surgery, if not to Hell.
Trump shits on foreigners, but his own wife
still condescends to take him to her bed.
She may be saved, but it will take a knife
now this carbuncle's ripened to a head.
Until his third divorce, she owns this thing
to whom she's just another bit of bling

Sunday, July 30, 2017

bloody mess

Melania had plastic surgery
but nothing could disguise that ugly lump.
Our Senate's gonna have to cut us free,
resecting the malignancy that's Trump.
For years, her arm's disfigured by this mass
that lately, starts to suppurate and swell.
By now, the wound's discolored, taut with gas;
she's doomed to surgery, if not to Hell.
Trump shits on foreigners, but his own wife
still condescends to take him to her bed.
She may be saved, but it will take a knife
now this carbuncle's ripened to a head.
The clown who tucked her chin misplaced the cut
when what must be excised's this orange butt

Saturday, July 29, 2017

This shall not pass

Murkowski stood, McConnell took the fall
like Gandalf hurled the balrog off that span
when citizens were up against the wall
our Senate voted with the better man.
In thrall to causes banished, but undead
Mitch fought against his own constituents
Sue Collins handed him his shriveled head
by bridging the inane Two Party fence.
McCain played up his moment on the stage
but--just as much--two women killed this bill.
He spared his colleagues from the turtle's rage
but when he's gone, they'll carry the torch still.
Our HealthCare's still the joke of the Free World
but what we've got, we owe to two tough girls

in, and out

The wife told Scaramucci to get lost
and warned he should expect her lawyer's fee
she'd caught him going down on his new boss
and didn't mean to be the third of three.
Mooch never learned to keep a civil tongue
his diction's less of Cambridge, than of Queens
the barnyard threats Sopranos might have sung
he never learned from Harvard's hoary deans.
The tax-break on the Lightbridge sale was sweet!
Mnuchin once you know him's a swell guy!
He never meant the guff he used to tweet
and piss on anyone who says he'd lie.
That pinky ring bought on the Jersey Shore
tells anyone who's wise he's Donald's whore.

Friday, July 28, 2017

Horatio

Murkowski stood, square in McConnell's path
determined to do what she knew she ought
unbent before the shriveled turtle's wrath
three senators, at least, could not be bought.
Beside her, John McCain did what he'd said
and voted with the Arizonans' will
it's hard to bribe a man who'll soon be dead
to vote against his conscience for your bill.
Sue Collins proved repeal's ultimate bane
the snow-job couldn't make her bend or blink
she serves the upright citizens of Maine
a lot of whom are living on that brink.
Until health's guaranteed in every state
there's work to do to make our country great.

You shall not pass

Murkowski stood, square in McConnell's path
determined to do what she knew she ought
unbent before the wizened turtle's wrath
three senators, at least, could not be bought.
Beside her, John McCain did what he'd said
and voted with the Arizonans' will
it's hard to bribe a man who'll soon be dead
to vote against his conscience for your bill.
Sue Collins proved repeal's ultimate bane
the snow-job couldn't make her bend, or blink
she serves the upright citizens of Maine
a lot of whom are living on that brink.
Until health's guaranteed in every state
there's work to do to make our country great.

Thursday, July 27, 2017

who speaks for justice?

Trump's loyalty's a purely one-way street;
Jeff Sessions knew he'd never have his back.
The liegelord wants his fealty complete,
but underlings endure bizarre attacks.
No one would take the job had he inquired;
no one who's worked for Trump survived it well.
The few who haven't quit were rudely fired
by all accounts, this guy's the boss from Hell.
In all the Senate, Trump found just one man
to whom his ravings seemed a worthy goal.
'Though this one brought the backing of the Klan
they're at each other's throats, out of control.
A century of U.S. influence
is over. Now we'd settle for mere Pence.