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September 4, 2024

And They Call This an Election?

It’s an awful choice between VP Harris,

Her or He Who Does Much Embarrass.

One no longer thrills to that lame orange hair,

Or his daily dish of bombastic fanfare,

Those blissful memories of his first Admin,

His aides turning blue with walk-back and spin.

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Yet Kam’ of the Great Grin and terrific pants-suits

Is thick with folks in the most awful cahoots.

How smoothly did she and her buddies clear way

To abscond with the nom’ sans primary fray.

Slick that was, slick and really quite slimy:

Even Keir Starmer loud-shouted «Cor, blimey!»

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Yes, that was dirty pool but gives rise to a prob’:

Lacking a strong candidate, the Dems need to rob:

Rob the election, which went well the last time,

Though odd ballots and dead voters tasted of lime,

But media mavericks served up «Big Lie» stew,

Which like «the Cloud» was a rhetorical coup.

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And along with the coup and ham-fisted Dem stuff,

Like Ukraine and support for an Israel so rough,

Kam’ looks and sounds like Joe Biden 2.0,

Not that The Orange is a winner, although

He wants to end the Uke war before it turns nuke,

To save his properties and then maybe Dubuque.

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Yes, the choice this year is between orange and brown,

Could this election poss’bly be more dumbed-down?

Grin or scowl, pants suits or suits, bombast or shell:

Can one wisely choose between Hades and hell?

So I think Cornell West will this year get my vote,

Which registers disgust with both ape and goat.

A brilliant prison escape, or really an FBI espionage operation?

A presidential election is gamed by one person who, despite exposure and national humiliation, goes on to become a national icon.

A businessman reunites by chance with a girl he gave advice to on a short plane ride 7 years earlier. She took his advice: now she's the star of a Broadway dance show.

A massive banana-plantations strike in Ecuador brings out the best and worst, the comic and the tragic, in American scheming.

My last novel. A false-flag operation in New Jersey may turn into war.