It is shut down now
And you weep and gnash your teeth?
The bird sings with joy.
Climb aboard the bus!
But the flight is cancelled.
Yes there is a God.
And from Kid:
I love tree barks most
I love ants climbing tree barks
Scr*w the democrats.
So haunting! LL, inspired by the muse, wrote these trenchant lines:
Hillary is Satan's Valentine,
Her husband Bill takes ANYTHING that walks on two legs.
They are model Democrats.
And one reader sent this:
When the Government is all shut down
And Jupiter aligns with Mars
Then walls will guard the borders
And MAGA will steer the stars.
Beautiful, isn't it. Do you have a Government Shutdown poem? Please don't be shy, send it in.
Age of Aquarius,
LSP
Will the government shut down last until Easter?
ReplyDeleteAnd will all of the drones be resurrected by Congress then?
Or will they all be furloughed for good?
The whole haiku format makes it easier to write bad poetry doesn't it?
There's not a lot of desperation on the part of bureaucrats, because they know that they'll get back pay so it's really more of a holiday for them. A friend of mine (furloughed) just took his wife and three kids on a five-day Disney cruise while on 'vacation'. Except that he did not have to use vacation days. Nice work if you can get it.
Bad poetry?!? But LL, there's a lot of power in "Hillary is Satan's Valentine." Of course part of the poetry lies in the joy of the cruising bureaucrats, captured, I think, in these important lines, "And you weep and gnash your teeth? The bird sings with joy."
ReplyDeletePlease, someone, anyone, drain the swamp.
Swamp draining detail reporting for duty. We start with Trump.
Deletetitled; Karma is a bitch
ReplyDeleteThere was an old witch from DC
Who had it in her mind to flee
From responsibilities she deemed to trite
When on the bus she did see to her fright
The fury of the great maga so bright
To end her flight in disgust
And be thrown under the bus
and Shiff for brains did alight
With his eyes popping out of his head
I failed poetry class
Oh, I like that last one on your post.
ReplyDeleteAfter 30 days, that'll be Sunday, Trump can eliminate some of these positions. I hope he eliminates about 700,000 of the 800k. He has nothing to lose as the fed 'workers' don't vote repub or Trump anyway, and the media can't possible hammer him any more than they are right now.
Then this will have some value.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall.
ReplyDeleteThat sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
Pelosi's botox face.
Of the two furloughed I know of, one is an FAA inspector/manager.
ReplyDeleteThe other a forensics investigator.
Not a good sample of the type to RIF.
My favorite poet is Tarzana Joe.
The dawning if the Age of Aquarius!
ReplyDeleteEgyptian, I know you're modest and that's a great and perhaps foundational virtue but what a good poem!Thanks for sending it in, posted.
ReplyDeleteTotally with you, Kid.
ReplyDeleteInfidel! That's beautiful, posted.
ReplyDeleteAh, Ed. I thought your poem was excellent but this...
ReplyDeleteI never doubted government
No not in the slightest
For the people we elected
Were the best-est and the brightest
Their ideas were spectacular
Their plans would never fail
For they likely went to Harvard
Or if not, they went to Yale
Lately, though, their leadership
Is more of a disaster
And I think that second graders
Could solve our problems faster...
Is genius.
Tarzana Joe forever.
Yes, AOW. EXACTLY.
ReplyDeleteAs in open order, Anon, right dress.
ReplyDelete