Sarah Palin, Levi Johnston:

Folks in Alaska have it rough.

Sarah Palin pulled out too soon,

Levi Johnston not soon enough.

Romney in Boston once did live,

Mitt, the myth, in Mormon corsets,

Put the Con in Conservative,

And the ass in Massachusetts.

     I'm a Hamptons' fan, the senator said,

     Some work on my staff, and some I embed.

He's Back. Resurrection of an old story because the old story is new again. Turns out the senator found a job for the  husband as a lobbyist, the one-year rule not withstanding.

Rep. Lynn Jenkins, Kansas

When Kansas Rep. Lynn Jenkins

Weirds out with “a great white hope,”

She may not see de-meaning,

But de-mirror can show her de-dope.

  This first-time congresswoman called for "a great white hope" to help Republicans defeat Barack Obama. She says she didn't know that the phrase has racist origins. I dunno, back in elementary school I was always told to look up a word or phrase before I used it in a conversation or an essay or political rally.

Betsy McCaughey lies herewith

Antiphrasis of her own myth.

  'Death Panel' myth maker Betsy McCaughey who claimed that Democratic health care reforms will create "death panels" became the subject of widespread ridicule after appearing on "The Daily Show" Thursday where Jon Stewart skewered her positions on health care reform.

Have I got this story straight?

Betsy McCaughey is such a liar

Her death panel myths caught on fire

With all real news but the one that's fake

Yet, real, when Jon Steward fires her?

John Mackkay, CEO, Whole Foods:

Is Crow a Gourmet Dish at Whole Foods?

  Whole Foods CEO John Mackkay waded into the healthcare fray, writing an op ed piece in the Wall Street Journal that attacked many of the perceived benefits of the Democratic drive to cover all Americans. His views did not sit well with his previously loyal customer base made up of a large number of liberal patrons who now promoting a boycott of his stores. He had to have been drinking some of his own Whole Foods Fruity-Aid.

Whole Foods McKay stirs health care pot,

Feeds loyal fans poppycock.

He's had his say, so now guess what:

Whole foods rot if fans boycott.

A government that represses dissent

Is a government pressing its descent. 

The greater there is uncertainty

The more dogmatic the certainty.

 

 

 

Praise from an enemy, delight.

From a friend, delight. Than take flight.

 

 

No harm will come to your reputation

Unless, of course, you provide the weapon.

If proof we're all the same you seek,

Then cite as proof, we're all unique.

I fully expect to die young,

No matter how old I become.

             ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Life's primary prerequisite

Requires dying to get by it.

             ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

I never came this way before,

Do I open, or close the door?

                   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~

Is the pursuit of happiness

Often happier than success?

                   ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~

There will always be mountains too high

Or not high enough. Depends on the eye.

It's my mind what's hearty and hale,

My body's what's farty and frail.

                 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

The weapons of war I most fear,

Are words of hate we never hear.

             ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

I never was told how young I appear

When I was old at a much younger year.

                ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

I'd call in sick but what's perverse

Is I'm ashamed I don't feel worse.

   My love affair with food has been weighted,

   My belly is now delapidated.

Tempted by it?

Don't try it.

 

On a diet?

Don't buy it.

Parting ways . . .

When anger fuels the division,

Divorce is a split decision.

 

            ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 

Romance provides to some a way

      from misery to ecstacy.

Marriage provides to some a way,

     from ecstacy to misery.

Love, of course, can go either way.

 

            ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 

While starlight charms the lover's heart,

In an expanding universe

Even stars grow further apart.

 

If your're at sea, you can prevail.

Don't pray for wind, learn how to sail.

 

                 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 

Sailing through life, you can't go back.

But you can try another tack.

Recession's impact on charitable giving . . .

Sweet charity, it's to yourself you give

Through gifts to others you forever live.

What we try so hard to conceal,

Our enemies leap to reveal.

 

               ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 He who says he has nothing to conceal,

Fights tooth and nail his nothing to reveal.

                

                 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

 

The more truth you try to obscure,

The more your truth can be skewered.

Ambivalence:

 

 

 

 

Ambivalence may seem ambiguous.

Failure to commit, say wits, dubious.

Bisexuous, yes. To us, obvious. 

 

 

Ambivalence Redux:

Was there ever a poet so depraved

That in his bid for eternal admiration

Once a pun upon a rhyme he gave

Was so appalling it set generations

Of poets spinning in their graves

In wordless admurmuration?

               

               ~ ~ ~ ~

 

Sometimes, I think, Well,

And then again, I don't know

Was what the elders used to say

When I was young. Well

I didn't know what the hell

They were talking about then

Or now, but like them I knew

It didn't matter. It was just

Something to say, to fill up air

Saying something that

Never was. Using words

That never were.

We looked to the stars

There was nothing in our way

Except us. Of course.

 

 

Bias guided your sex ed selection,

Now, absent immaculate conception,

Proof of Abstinence Only's rejection

Are the babies born from miss-conception.

I think the reason I know

     how little I know

Is because I really know

     how little I know.

 

 

The wisest course for some

Is simply to play dumb.