Sunday Poem On Politics
by Jennifer Just | Jan 22, 2012 1:21pm
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It’s Sunday - time for contemplation
of the week in politics across the nation.
Candidates were here, then gone…
So much for “It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon”!
In South Carolina the polls were right
—well, the ones that said Newt would win last night.
Newt’s Ex got air time but HIS ratings spiked
in the state where their Governor “Adirondacks hiked.”
I would SO much have rather taken a gander
at Mitt’s 1040, not ‘Newt the Philanderer’
Newt’s Super PACs may all hate Mitt
But is Mormonism a better fit
If one wife is not enough?
(New diet: Imagining Newt in the buff.)
Gone this week was Ricky Perry….
…here’s your ten gallon, what’s your hurry?
But thanks to Colbert’s Super PAC
Pizza’s Herman Cain is back!
If he gets even one percent
We’ll know Stewart’s money was well-spent.
The joke’s on us - more kids now know
About finance laws than Rob Lowe
Knows football (not saying a lot -
At least HE doesn’t have a ballot spot.)
In Connecticut’s GOP
The ranks are thinning 1,2,3…
In the 5th CD I think we’re down
to …eleventeen candidates? I’ve lost count.
And judging from the last fundraising Q
It might be curtains for Chris Shays too.
Meanwhile Governor Dannel Malloy
Seems to be trying every ploy
To fill our state’s depressing coffers-
He even accepted Davos’s offer!
Moody’s made Ben Barnes turn red
When our bonds got downgrad-ed.
How to make up what we’ve spent
When less trickles down from the one percent?
No worries, it’ll be just fine:
We can always get more from the 99!
Should we reinstate the tolls?
How would THAT do at the polls?
Ah well - with gambling, drinking 24/7
The rest will at least think they are in heaven.
Phew! Can’t imagine what’s in store
For the race next week— hard to imagine there’s any more
Excitement. We have 9 more months of this??
What more could this soap opera possibly miss?
Amnesia, murder, evil twins?
The last guy standing, I guess, will win.
It’s entertaining, sure, but tiring
And oddly very uninspiring.
It could be folks will ditch the drama
And vote for that cool black dude Obama.
We’ll sure find out - through FB, Twitter -
Who turns out to be the fitter!
Jennifer Just was Connecticut’s Field Organizer for the Obama Campaign in 2008. She is a resident of Woodbridge.
Tags: Jennifer Just, poetry, South Carolina, presidential primary, Obama
(3) Comments
posted by: Tessa Marquis | January 22, 2012 2:58pm
Obama sings better
than Herman Cain
But the whole of Politics
Gives me a Royal Pain.
posted by: ... | January 22, 2012 9:41pm
A lovely little poem to brighten the mood of how the next 9 months will be, hehe.
posted by: brutus2011 | January 22, 2012 11:27pm
Barack isn’t doing the trick, but Newt just makes me sick.
Mitt is a better fit,
but Barack will beat him by a bit.
Rick is an interesting guy,
but Barack will beat him by a score on high.
Ron is somewhat a mystery,
and he just might give Barack some dysentery.
I know I am a bad poet, but vote for me-
How much worse could it be?