Thursday, February 12, 2015
The Art of Legislating
-Well, for the ten thousandth time, the devil
is in the details.
-We’re the devils!
-Don’t get theological on me! Our fellows
rely on us to hammer out a deal.
-Just speaking to you is sacrilege, according
to a good many of my voters.
-Mine too, and we will rape their purity
once again this night.
-You’re a Catholic: you’ve got Confession.
I’ve just got elevated thought.
-Well, hold it down so we can talk.
-And as grimy as it all proves, our better angels
will drift in when we’re exhausted.
-I think we should belay the holy or infernal
imagery. We’re...sleazy car dealers in a seedy
part of town.
-My battered Ford and a thousand for your Chevvie!
-When we shake hands on that, we lift the neighborhood.
Labels: Art of Compromise, Catholic, compromise, Confession, core voter, devil, Devil in details, ideological purity, political purity, rape, theology.
Friday, August 06, 2010
The Discourse
Once these furious cretins
gain power we’ll nod, dis-
tracted and amused.
They’ll accept that for
agreement. Good thing
for the Reign of Terror
will exclude us as
purity enforced
on all
but the smallest
children, whose
sun-slashed games
of war we’ll observe
from attic windows.
Labels: political purity
