Talking Like a Duck

A wounded duck he’s well become,
But lame, as though forever hurt?
Like Aflac’s, ever optimum,
At times when doomsday critics blurt,
He’s got to brawl to guarantee
Obamacare’s his legacy.

He'll Get His

Regardless if you thought the price
He ought to pay was life in jail,
Or death. No matter, both suffice.
And in the end alike prevail.
In cases monstrous such as this,
His cell or yard's his last abyss.

Uncle Peeper

I wish I worried more about
The feds‘ observing whom I’ve called
And who’s called me in case they doubt
My loyalty and thus forestalled
Dark hopes of zapping Washington
To aid Iran or just for fun.

By George

No longer must one go to school
To shoot and kill and then succumb.
Like Zimmerman, why play the fool?
Make Trayvon-Martin types look dumb:
The sort who in the dark pursued
Are going to stand their ground and feud

Patience Please

What else is it besides a coup,
Which we decline to recognize?
And doing so appear untrue
To liberty in others’ eyes.
Elected to a four-year term
Last year as Egypt’s president,
Mohamed Morsi, let’s affirm,
Though somewhat less than heaven sent,
Unless in what one sees but good,
His diehard Muslim Brotherhood.

Modern Antiquity

It’s quaint that Francis 1 has cooked
His meals and taken trains to work.
But what I fear he’s overlooked,
A new pope can no longer shirk
Within his clergy, sins immense:
Abuse brought on by abstinence.

More than Skin Deep

In Washington, the Redskins’ name
Has properly come under fire.
Unreasonably put to shame,
Minorities detect their ire
When others make them feel chagrin
For just the color of their skin.

When to Ask Questions Later

The stealthy use of U.S. drones
To execute Americans
Abroad who menace us brings groans
From civil libertarians
Back home who say don’t hence take lives.
Abuse without due process thrives.

When Jenny Goes Marching Off

If women want a combat role,
They ought to have the very chance
That men do, letting both control
How fast and far careers advance.

Electoral Kindergarten

I love it. Having failed to win
With shorter early-polling hours
Or picture ID cards akin
To paring Blue States’ voting powers,
In some their GOP now floats
A  ploy for counting national votes.

The Ties that Free

He could have shown more eloquence
By clinging to the ritual
Of splendid thoughts but at expense
Of grist in an Inaugural.
He found instead more plans to pump
As though back on the campaign stump.

Unsportsmanlike Conduct

For sure police know more than I
About who lies or tells the truth,
Though how could anybody spy
(Unless mixed up—or super sleuth)
The years of drug use he denied
Until too clearly, he had lied?

Unc's Funk

At first he might look only miffed;
He’d never bounced a check before.
But when the Chinese give short shrift
To pleas to wait a little more
For payments on their hefty loans
The sounds he‘ll make are heartfelt moans.