Monday, July 02, 2012
-Horses and Senators Sleep Standing Up, hey?
-Well this one did. Don't remember a word of
that speech. At any rate, I had burned the proverbial
candle the previous evening while celebrating the
humiliation of our despicable enemy.
-Ecstatic right wing blogs still can't shut up about the
speech even after all this time. “Brilliant! Incisive!
A philosophy of integrity presented without equivocation.”
-Equivocation huh?--my strongest suit.
-No longer. You're clad in the blinding armor of
righteousness! Smoting the barbarians!
-Too clanky. And smotey.
-Well what...?
-I had painted myself into one horrible corner.
When the other side put forth a resolution
praising me, I couldn’t vote for it.
-Out of humility?
-Out of Party!
-Be all that what it must. This is way it is with Champions: One True Way!
-I need a wavering drink.
-You need nothing. You're God!
-That never lasts.
-Well this one did. Don't remember a word of
that speech. At any rate, I had burned the proverbial
candle the previous evening while celebrating the
humiliation of our despicable enemy.
-Ecstatic right wing blogs still can't shut up about the
speech even after all this time. “Brilliant! Incisive!
A philosophy of integrity presented without equivocation.”
-Equivocation huh?--my strongest suit.
-No longer. You're clad in the blinding armor of
righteousness! Smoting the barbarians!
-Too clanky. And smotey.
-Well what...?
-I had painted myself into one horrible corner.
When the other side put forth a resolution
praising me, I couldn’t vote for it.
-Out of humility?
-Out of Party!
-Be all that what it must. This is way it is with Champions: One True Way!
-I need a wavering drink.
-You need nothing. You're God!
-That never lasts.
Labels: factionalism, Right, senator
Monday, May 14, 2012
Presently in Bad Odor, Compromise
When was it not? A-
dults came forth and
soothed the hotheads.
Then all sat as enemies
to work something out.
Even the Great Khan bent,
but not, it seems, a true
druggist from Terra Haute.
Legislators tearing each
other limb from limb'd
prove his practiced stance.
Expanding that to war...
so long as he's not
doing the dying.
Eventually spending
your children’s blood
for glittering cause
and its vile money.
Labels: compromise, factionalism, parties, tea parties, war
