Poetic License

Where is Philip K. Dick when we need him? Where’s Carl Hiaasen? Like, I suspect, many, I’m tired of saying “You can’t make this stuff up,” while laughing nervously and expecting to hear that a red button has been pushed. I’d really like my time, brains, and emotions back. Could we have the election tomorrow?


Igor and Lev walked into a South Florida bar…

Rudy and Paul were there and they said…

Oh, look, there’s Oleg and Vladi

And Mike and Mick and Mitch

Gotta love those M names, and hey, there’s

Lindsay and Steve (Mnuchin) (see? M, again)

Now we’re together, now

We gotta plan.



But where’s Donnie?

Oh, you know, he’s driving the bus

The one he’s getting ready

To throw everyone under.

Eric and Don and Ivan(ka) are seated.

But where’s the other M?

Why is she standing over there, waving

Is she smiling or sobbing?

And what about “the boy?”

The one with the noble name?

Knight? Lord? Earl?



Not just Syria and the Kurds

Not only honor ripped and stomped

Not only lies

But now, he almost got the award

For the Best Reality Moment of

The First 1000 Days …

When the American diplomat’s wife—

The one who drove the car

That killed the British 19-year-old

On his motorcycle, then fled the UK

To the US of A

Claiming diplomatic immunity—

Was holed up in the anteroom

Next to the Oval Office

While Our Trump-ster spoke

With the dead youth’s parents

And TV cameras waited

To catch the moment of excoriation

Or forgiveness

(Either would, of course, kill in the daily ratings)

Except the parents decided not to play, and walked.

Leaving the Daily Producer-in-Chief

To watch his TV programs by his

Little lonesome self.