The Poetaster

The Poetaster


Never tell a poetaster
You don't like his verse.
Larceny is evil.
This is infinitely worse.


At first he'll just god bless you.
But that's not where it ends.
After that a legion of
The poetaster's friends


Come forth to say he's brilliant.
The proof is he has haters.
So saying all are sure your supper
Will be crow and taters.


Well, actually not.
He has no ear for rhyme.
His meter (if he meant one)
Is completely out of time.


But you don't write again
Lest his defenders come in throngs.
Just wait until the poetaster
Has outlived his songs.


None of this is fair.
Nature's full of night.
Conceit is very silly.
The poor fool just can't write.


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Obama


Obama is a prince,
Black diamond, a gem.
He's bringing home the soldiers,
What's left of them.


I know the USA
Will never change its ways,
But Lincoln freed the blacks,
Obama freed the gays.


Obama put his weight
In back of gun control,
An obvious position
Unless you're on the dole.


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A Popular President


My country 'tis of thee.
We all loved Reagan more
When he raised the speed limit,
Took money from the poor,
Gutted social services
And used the bucks for war.
The prettiest damned president
To use a couple combs,
He assured us only Europe
Would be hit with bombs,
And solemn as a tomb
But with a boyish grin,
In a nuclear holocaust
America would win.


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Jerry Falwell


Jerry Falwell said,
“I'm no environmentalist!”
In fact he wasn't anything
A kind man would admit to.
But just suppose the cosmos is
So totally insane
That everything that monster said was right.


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