Proposal

 

Ask Atlas to shrug-

off the looters at his ear

and laissez-nous faire.

 

Chasing Terabithia

Bricks from the wall won’t

Make a reliable bridge-

The cohesive will.

 

Get up on the House Floor

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Look around everywhere you turn is heartache
It’s everywhere that you go
You try everything you can to escape
The state debt that you owe

When all else fails and you long to be
Something better than you are today
I know a place where you can get away
It’s called the house floor, and here’s what it’s for, so

Come on, Owe
Let the money move, you can use it
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, Owe
Let the money go with the flow
You know you can do it

All you need is your own elocution
So use it that’s what it’s for 
Go inside, for your finest declamation
Your speech will open the door 

It makes no difference if you’re bald or wide 
If you’re a saint or a jerk 
If the money’s pumping it will give you new life
You’re a superstar, yes, that’s what you are, you know it

Come on, Owe
Let the money move, you can use it
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, Owe
Let the money go with the flow
You know you can do it

Riches, where you find it?
Not just where you count and spend it 
Revival in the fiscal
That’s where ya feel so bountiful
Taxable, life’s a ball
So get up on the house floor

Come on, Owe
Let the money move, you can use it
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, Owe
Let the money go with the flow
You know you can do it

Owe, Owe 
Riches, where ya find it? 
Owe, Owe 
Riches, where ya find it?

South says no, and fo’ sho’
Robbing Joe to pay Joe 
Ole Miss and Texas scream 
On the cover of a magazine 

Big Apple; Garden State 
Pictures of many mistakes 
Peach State, Motor City
Alabama, in misery  

They are hurt, they need help
Unemployment is not swell
Arizona, Minnesota, too
California, spent a slew

States with an attitude 
Others that are on the move
Don’t just sit there, let’s get to it
Sign the bail, do something with it

Owe, Owe

Come on, Owe
Let the money move, you can use it
Hey, hey, hey
Come on, Owe
Let the money go with the flow
You know you can do it

 

Mr. Obama Goes to Washington, whistleblowing.

Generational theft or

.….

Rational generation?

 

 (whistleblowing?  click link)

 

Tug of War

A strip of land sieged,

bids Allah and Jehovah

a conflict treaty.

 

Blago goes to Wonderland

Down the rabbit hole

a bottle labeled “Sell Me”

tempts a sennet’s eye.

 

Larry, the Shackled Mayor

Oh Larry, O Larry!

Say, have you met Larry?

Larry, the shackled mayor.

He has clothes and bling adorned so

accepting gifts even more so.

Oh Larry, Oh Larry that thief-elementary

Oh Larry, the King of Larcny

On his back, a massive federal coup

Beside it, a city under sewage too!

And proudly above waves the Red, White, and Blue,

You can learn alot from Larry!

 

Inspired by the famous Groucho Marx song, Lydia the Tattooed Lady.

 

Ode on a Mumbai Urn

Three pipers piping

Many chiefs a fiddling, and a

sobbing Temple Tree.

 

My condolences to the families and friends who lost loved ones in Mumbai, India.

 

A Count Ability?

Frankly, a dead tally.

A cold man sneers as he passes

a bushel of gore. 

 

Punctuation

The motherless R_____,
noosed in a scarf,
declares freedom from the want of birth
and punctuates it with a Maker’s Mark.

Inspired by “The Headless Bust” by Edward Gorey.