Ehavoc's Solipsistic Universe

No Joke With A Punch Line Ending In Guantanamo

Don’t believe for a minute, we’re surprised

About Guantanamo’s hidden crimes

And practices that ought to be despised

The report was in the New York Times

No matter what one might have surmised

Abu Graib wasn’t just a sometimes

Thing, with guards acting out against commands

It is where this Administration firmly stands

Circle Of Friends

What better than to be surrounded

By a circle of your closest friends

Enemies away can be hounded

By the weight the chorus lends

No discordant notes are sounded

And seeming as one, every voice blends

This is fine when the subject is music

But echo chambers lead to groupthink

Goodbye John Ashcroft

And so, John Ashcroft has gone and quit

Can’t say he will be missed too much

With the Patriot Act to be remade legit

Only believers will miss his overbearing touch

And all manner of partisan causes he did commit

Fighting against medicinal pot and such

Not a bad second act, though I pan

After losing an election to a dead man

Tax Reform? Whatchu Mean Tax Reform?

What for are thou, this proposed tax reform?

And what does Mr. Bush mean to bring?

This fabled consumption tax, if it were born

Those living on their paychecks it would sting

With deficits looming higher than ever before

How much room does he really have, is the thing

While more tax cuts would certainly be attractive

The additional debt service would be radioactive

No Rest For The Poet

I know we are all supposed to unify
And for my part I will try to be good
Bitter partisan feelings won't dignify
And I will hold my tongue, like I should
But, don't believe my silence does signify
Any kind of surrender, for fight I would
It’s a reluctant respite my words will take
For a sharp tongue is hard habit to break

Tragedy Or Farce?

Remember those famous words from Marx
First the tragic form of an event is selected
And then it will take the form of a farce
The last Republican war-president re-elected
Led to a tragedy no matter how you may parse
Is a farce now what can be expected?
I don’t think I will be the one to do the betting
Though even elephants are somtimes forgetting