Yes-Brainer

Green Bay’s favored by a little
In the Super Bowl tomorrow.
Who will win? I’m noncommittal.
Neither team I often follow.
Still, the Packers are my favorites
Off-field more than for their blitz hits.

Oy Vey Jerusalem!

In Tel Aviv, alarm and awe
Result from memory of Iran
When revolution downed the Shah
And true believers from then on
Have threatened to a fare-thee-well
The massacre of Israel.

Heads Up, Osama

The Muslim demonstrators pose
No greater threat to any man
Than those horrific so-and-sos,
Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

They the People

North Africans are in the street
To overthrow despotic rule.
To do so, some of them entreat
Support like first we heard in school:
They want the backing of our Pres,
As we got from King Louis Seize.

Unsocial Insecurity

From time to time a YouTube shot
Will show a geezer getting mugged.
Relieved of anything that’s hot,
You’re grateful that he wasn’t plugged,
Then catch yourself: Why offer thanks
For f- - -ing s- - - . (Fill in the blanks).

Island Inferno

A year has passed since Haiti’s quake.
And yet a million refugees
Still live a life that makes hearts ache
With cholera, a fell disease,
And rubble all around their tents.
They crave a turn of these events.