Friday, December 29, 2017

No. 237: Future Perfect — New Year's 2028, a verse for our President's term #3

Back in the old days
(remember them?),
when we were governed by laws
not by men.
Before nationwide systemic legal pollution
there was this thing. . .the Constitution?
You can still see it in its glass case.
(Don't get too close, it sprays Mace in your face.)

The old Constitution had a few failings
guns were not mentioned until an amendment
and it didn't say nearly enough about God.
Which was odd.
Everyone knows we're a Christian nation.
Always have been. 
Since the Creation.

A renewed Constitution was our solution
with businesses enshrined as divinely inspired
the idea of unions completely retired
and, as in our Bible, slavery required
to prevent lower orders attempting to cheat,
they have to work if they want to eat.
If shelter and food are what you crave,
if you don't have a job, we make you a slave
or provide you with an early grave.

And keeping with founding fathers' intent,
voting's only for owners, not those who rent.
Owners, what's more, of considerable wealth
who of the population make up (maybe) a twelfth.
Keeping it real with the founders again
these voters are, naturally, only white Christian men.
And since we can predict how good people vote,
we don't need elections and what those promote:
rule by the ignorant, the unemployed,
unhappy minorities, the neurotic annoyed,
who, sad to say, still find a way
despite voting restrictions to ruin our day.
Elections are bound to cause nothing but strife
therefore we declared Mike Pence Leader for Life.

The Atlantic: God’s Plan for Mike Pence
Will the vice president—and the religious right—be rewarded for their embrace of Donald Trump?

Thursday, December 28, 2017

No. 236.1: EXTRA! Congress Taxes Belief

It was supposed to be a tax cut for manufacturers. Then it got out of control.

The wildly popular manufacturing break, passed in 2004, is a case study in the unforeseen consequences of changing the tax code — how companies take advantage of gaping holes and force the government to play catch-up.

As members of Congress
we have to confess
when dealing with taxes
we make a mess.
This, sadly, applies
across the aisle,
for both parties fall
for lobbyists' guile
and at their urging
write into law
clauses we have no idea
what they're for
only to find
sooner, not later,
we've created another 
revenue crater,
leaving the government
so short of cash
that it invites
all things to crash.
Bridges and highways
crumble while
we go on TV
pretending to smile,
saying with US
all will be well
while with THEM
it'll be hell.
No wonder voters
get disaffected.
Not that it matters
if we're reelected.
The country's secure,
safe from defeat,
only while each of us
keeps his or her seat.

No. 236: The Universal Political Credo

The idea of win-win
is a ruse.
The truth is
when you win, 
I lose.
I choose 
winning — by any means!
Given my superior genes,
even with “fair play”,
I would win anyway,
but cheating enhances,
my chances.

Wednesday, December 27, 2017

No. 235: A Tale Of Two Dons Flowing Home To The Sea

It ain't nuthin' yez wanna dwell on. . .
sumthin' yez (maybe) gotta consider. . .
dis prezidint ax lika Mafia Don
wudda done if he tweeted on Twidder.

Imagine dear depotted John Gotti,
dhumbs blazin', takin' all enemies on.
Talkin' all potty, actin' all snotty,
tweetin' @TheRealTeflonDon.

Bot' o' dese guys cum frum Queens. . .
doan take no genius t' know wud dat means.
Yez do whachez do to fulfil dere wishes
if yez doan neva wanna sleep wid no fishes.

Tuesday, December 26, 2017

No. 234: Satanists' Plan For America

Our tip-top secret plan for times to come:
first confiscate everyone's Bibles and guns.
Then after some time, when we hold sway,
everyone has to get married gay.
If criminals pursue hetero sex. . .
you don't want to see what we'll do next!

We, as you know, worship Satan
whose relation to Yahweh remains uncertain.
Skipping details, they are both alpha-males
each longing to read the other's emails.
(Or should we say entrails?)
For thousands of years Satan's been on the hook
because Yahweh's followers wrote some silly book
purporting to show that those in the know
decided that his way was the way to go.
Well pardon us but. . .that “ain't necessarily so".

Monday, December 25, 2017