The Groves of Claptrap

Obama’s May in academe
Is nuts enough to make one scream.
At Arizona State, they say:
Address the grads and go away.
No LL.D. degree you get.
You’re not enough accomplished yet.
Two books? The Harvard Law Review?
A party school is ASU.
An aloe-vera maker, we
Awarded honorarily.
He smoothed our skin to large extent,
And you are only president.

At Notre Dame, true-blue benight
Abortion as a woman’s right.
But it’s a view Obama holds,
So now a brouhaha unfolds
If for commencement he's the best
Or shouldn't be the speaking guest.
The university allowed
A “Queer Film Fest” nor disavowed
The show “Vagina Monlogues,”
Which played on campus, thus befogs
The fare the student body’s taught:
Freethinking or dogmatic thought.

By contrast next week should be bliss.
On Friday in Annapolis
At midshipmen’s commissioning,
Fears not Barack more bickering.
If he their chief hears in his the talk
One peep from them, the plank they’ll walk.