Thursday, July 28, 2011
The Deadline Lurks
in rankest shrubbery.
How practitioners hew
to party lines while mouth-
ing abstractions anew
of the rights of men!--
even of women. Rash
consequences are trumpeted
by talking heads who nonetheless
grow fatigued watching red meat
gray. Nothing sways the politicians.
The public hopes for conscience;
they for cash.
Labels: deadline, debt limit, party line
