THE PRINCIPAL EDUCRAT

If teaching were a real profession,
We’d have the independence to
Use thoughtfully our own discretion
In teaching kids don’t have a clue.
Instead the educrat bureaucracy-
A bloated tribe of mediocracy-
Thinks that it knows how teaching’s done
And can be done by anyone.
The principal administrator
Has done a little classroom time
Then fast-tracked out so s/he could climb
The ladder up to castigator
Of what once drove her up the wall
Without a daily Seconal.

IT'S KILLER TIME

The NCLB mandates testing
To count the prisons we will need
Because who fail they’ll be arresting
On charges that they cannot read.
I know you’ll claim I’m pessimistic
When all I am is realistic-
There’s money for the rich folk’s schools
But why spend money on their mules?
But when the mules begin their bucking
It never even gives you pause
That you’re the reason they’re outlaws.
And tired of all the jive and shucking,
The mules know they’ve been serving time
So why not go and do the crime.

PALIN INTERVIEW WITH POEMS ON AFFAIRS OF STATE

"I read all sorts of publications;
Especially the daily news.
My team supplies me with quotations,
Specifically about the Jews.
About them teaming with the nigger
To sap this nation of its vigor
So when it comes to Judgment Day
We’ll all be dead because we’re gay.
That’s why I’m running on this ticket-
To see our kids remain co-ed;
And not start thinking God is dead.
If that seems like a sticky wicket,
I say to you beyond a doubt-
LET'S KILL 'EM ALL THEN SORT IT OUT!"

LIBERAL HYPOCRISY

The Governor, Ms. Sarah Palin,
Appointed friends and donors to
Top jobs. And now the Dems are wailin’
About what they themselves would do.
Methinks this smacks of some hypocrisy-
For, after all, this is democracy
Where you’ll be left out in the cold
If you don’t sell yourself for gold.
A case in point Barrack Obama
Who’s raised more money than he spends.
Won’t he, as well, reward his friends?
Of course he won’t appoint his mama
To office. That would be a joke.
She's dead already and died broke.

A PRAYER WARRIOR FOR PALIN

I am A Palin Prayer Warrior
And hope to God I live to see
Rejoicing angels lift and buoy her
From VP to Presidency.
Then she can help us smite blasphemers
As Sampson did with asses’ femurs
And crush them to a bag of bones,
Returning glory to Dow Jones.
She’ll put an end to their verbosity
On separating church and state;
That gays and lesbians may mate;
And finally end the worst atrocity-
That woman will receive her due
And be presented on The View.

WHEN!!!!!

Electioneering is the seeking
Of power in an office that
You promise voters you’re critiquing.
Since politics was first begat
You’ve promised them idealism;
To do away with cynicism;
That you’re the one, the real McCoy,
To represent the hoi polloi.
But once elected to the office,
And after time to settle in,
Just like a snake you shed your skin;
And sideways slithering you scoff us
Until you do it all again.
When will we learn to holler "WHEN?"

A NEW LEFT (FOR NOAM CHOMSKY)

To vote the lesser of two evils,
So Chomsky says, is doing right.
Because he’s given up upheavals;
Or maybe he’s too old to fight?
He’s all but given up democracy
By giving way to vote plutocracy.
I’d rather vote a party that
Is willing to go to the mat
With capital and take production
And put in the workers’ hands.
He’d say to fire from frying pans.
But Chomsky needs an introduction
On what it means to build a Left
Not based on surplus values’ theft.