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Presidential Poetry

Liberal Art

But now I fight their fight.

Like Grover Norquist who declared

Bipartisanship “rape,”

Or Cheney’s buds from petrol firms

(What meeting? There’s no tape!)

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Oh I’m no mod’rate, no sirree,

I’m nowhere near my Dad;

I’m not repeating forty-one

Baghdad or no Baghdad.

If anything it’s Reagan whom

I really hope to be;

I like his style, that’s why I went

Play-acting on the sea.

I say all this to let you in

To my terrific secret:

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