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Intimations of Crimson Munificence

While the Fly bravely enters the Medieval Ages

The Pudding's still run by stiletto-clad sages.

For them, a warm, happy, safe present we push:

A gift-wrapped, Winthropian Holiday Bush.

Bill Clinton has had a year tougher than most,

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We offer him nothing, just LBJ's ghost.

To our buddy H. Ross, for the airtime he'll get,

We wish him a purpose, a new raison d'etre.

To Yasser and Yitzhak, we send our best wishes,

We hope that you don't wind up sleeping with fishes.

Making peace amidst strife is a lot of hard work,

But miracles happen--just look at DeKlerk.

The nation's top lawyer, that firebrand Reno,

Has been busy this year fighting Bam-Bam and Dino.

She gets a vacation, and, merely to please us,

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