Friday, February 9, 2018

No. 267: Warren Donald

Warren Buffett is smart.
Everyone knows
he's not about
the Emperor's new clothes.
But just suppose
the stocks he chose
rose because. . .well. . .
that's how it goes.

One investment succeeds
another fails
no matter who
reads market's entrails.
Yes, you need smarts
yes, you need pluck
but investing like most things
comes down to luck.

In pursuing
worldly success
some eschew striving
for conniving and lying.
This explains Trump
I guess more or less.

Thursday, February 8, 2018

No. 266: Trump Marches On

President reportedly seeks parade in model of France's Bastille Day celebration, prompting one veterans' group to call him 'a wannabe banana republic strongman'

"...I will be so good at the military, your head will spin."
— Donald J. Trump, September 3, 2015, Hugh Hewitt interview

"Oh, my God" he cried as the phone fell from his fingers. "Do you know what he wants? He wants us to march. He wants everybody to march!"
Catch-22, Joseph Heller (Chapter 37: General Scheisskopf)
I love
parades
getting laid
invoices unpaid
when I throw shade
meeting bridesmaids

lots of gold braid
defunding Medicaid

I don't love
getting weighed
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade


I love
wealth displayed
that I'm overpaid
enemies waylaid
that I can degrade 

the Everglades

I love
to receive accolades
court judgments stayed
driving somewhere by motorcade


I love
goosing the maid
my wife displayed
when I masquerade
when others get played
(or better betrayed
becoming dismayed)
pretending I am never afraid
to cut foreign aid
cake that’s handmade


I love
my rambling tirades
my endless charades
threats I’ll invade
beds left unmade
after sexual escapades
climate change which is never man-made
saying I opposed the slave trade
insisting illegals all carry switchblades


But most of all
I love parades



Wednesday, February 7, 2018

No. 265: Incitement To Indictment

Who else do we know
could run a casino,
an amoral temple of gambling and booze,
and somehow manage money to lose?

Unlike the real rich with wealth explicit
his is purported, likely illicit
payment for oligarch's dirty cash laundered
to pay back to bankers' money he squandered.

When convicted,
for crimes past and present,
he'll pardon himself,
vacating his sentence.

Tuesday, February 6, 2018

No. 264: The Craven (TRUMP goes forth)

(with continuing apologies to Edgar Allan Poe and, I suppose, poetry lovers everywhere)

Previously on The Craven” (Nos. 257.1, 258, 260)

Once upon a midnight tweeting. . .
“It's Robert Mueller!”
Then through the door a horde did burst. . .
“Documents!” quoth I, “Indeed!”. . .
My lawyer told me, “Say no more,”. . .
Those who know me live to serve me.


Today's episode:

  “The time was nigh,” thought I, “Go for broke!”popping the top of my Diet Coke®.
Upon the wall I saw a TIME® cover, the one where they call me “The Perfect Lover”.
  My spirits raised, my mind unfazed, re-energized by Coke® and praise, I gazed upon,
   Coke® in hand, my present favorite of the TRUMP brand, a ray of Hope who
is quick with fixes and never — EV-ER! — my notion nixes, Hope Hicks is
a  woman, untutored in politics, who knows and shows old “pros” new tricks.
  I stood transfixed.

  Hopefully, began she, “we distribute dilution! Distracting remnants of thinking faction,
Getting facts shunned, gaining traction, calling our team into action, 'coz they can't get no satisfaction,
  Thinking, now, inside the box, with FOX acting as our proxy, spewing out their toxic moxie,
  Murdoch, Putin (sure as shootin') Mueller's so-called facts refutin', disputatious,
IN YOUR FACES!, White, alt-Right marching racists reproclaiming rightful places.
(I know they're baboon Looney Tunes. . .but. . .) Then, of course, there's Devin Nunes.”
  I pondered future honeymoons.

[to be continued?]

Monday, February 5, 2018

No. 263.1: EXTRA! Trump Crash Day 2

The market rose because I chose
a trillion tax cut to impose
to enrich those not needy
those who chose to remain greedy.

Markets crashin'?
NOT my doin'!
Traitor Dems
causin' ruin.

No. 263: Old Devil Nunes (a poke in the eye)

(with apologies to Burton Lane and E. Y. Harburg)

[For the sake of rhyme, Representave Nunes name rhymes with goons, prunes, baboons, impugns, lampoons, maroons, racoons, saloons, spitoons, teaspoons, typhoons, pantaloons, Microsoft Zunes. Poetic License may be examined at our offices.]


(Email subscribers: to hear the tune go to blog by clicking on title above.)

I'm hunting for conspiracy
here in our democracy
which I and I alone can see
Yes, I'm old Devil Nunes
a past master of lies
And, yes, old Devil Nunes pokes your eye

The FBI better not try
to think they'll outwit me
with the alt-right
spoilin' to fight
the Feds can not git me
Truth I fiddle-faddle

I'm hallucinating wide and high
seein' stuff in my mind's eye
conspiracy's my battle cry
GOP Looney Tunes
we're platoons of poltroons
And, yes, old Devil Nunes pokes your eye

Just when you think
you've seen the worst
Old Devil Nunes'
thumb's in your eye
I'm so perverse

(Repeat)

No. 262.2: EXTRA! Speaker Ryan Responds

US House speaker Paul Ryan has come under fire after citing a school worker who was $1.50 (£1) a week better off because of recent tax cuts.

So what's the deal here
did I make a mistake?
It's not like I said,
Let them eat cake!”

I mean, hey come on,
gimme a break.
More than two dimes a day,
for Ayn Randy's sake!

This daily bonus
is almost a quarter!
If you're complaining,
you are out of order.

Think of things that quarter could buy. . .
. . .
. . .
. . .

Now you can afford,
by golly, ah shucks,
nearly every two weeks
coffee at Starbucks.

Or, instead,
if you want to go wild,
you could almost support
some poor hungry (undeserving!) 
TV ad third-world  child.

Best do that quick
in case the kid's sick
and before GOP Congress,
just for a laugh,
figures how to take back
your buck and a half.