Post-election poetry night on Catholic Light
I saw Pete’s post below and couldn’t resist. I wrote this some time after the 2000 election. I was hoping to make a children’s book for adults. I didn’t get very far. Add stanzas in the comments if you wish!
The very hungry democrat
Pay your taxes – I need the cash!
I can’t have too much in my stash
Congress sits with knife and fork
Don’t trim the fat - just pass the pork!
Another program sounds delicious
Count on me being meretricious
Poor Bill is gone, but Hill’s still here
2004 we will not fear
We’re safe - Riady copped a plea!
He could have hurt the DNC
Surely he was no man’s fool
But China needs a brand new tool
Too bad for Bush, I wanted Gore
Now I have to bank offshore
I’m on your side, don’t call me wacky -
I brought the suit on big tobaccy!
With sophistry I do disarm
I'll subsidize your llama farm
I welcome souls through borders free
You can’t speak English? Vote for me!
I’ll save the earth and hug the trees
Put out that cigar, if you please.
I’ll clean the water then clear the air
What’s a billion here or there?
Don’t ask me who keeps the books
Where the cash goes no one looks
You can’t deny my bleeding heart
So unlike Strom, that mean old fart!
I’ll spend your bread on this and that
I’m the very hungry democrat!