Let me ease your burden

A dull and idle boy was he
Whom Senator would one day be
For un-remarkability
He was a perfect twit
Scholastically he missed the bar
In sports he functioned under par
On looks alone he’d not go far
Nor live upon his wit
And yet this dreary lump of clay
Had one redeeming card to play
It was a talent, some would say
Not fit for gentle folk
The lad could look you in the eye
And let outrageous falsehoods fly
There was no fib, nor tale, nor lie
Too brazen to invoke
He lied his way through public school
Professors all he made the fool
Of truth no single molecule
Did stain his bar exam
At law his gift won accolades
Not possible in honest trades
In time he joined the vile crusades
A mayor’s seat to scam
With artful infidelity
He milked the city’s treasury
Invested in publicity
and stormed the Capitol
Without the truth to slow him down
The wretched lad now toasts the town
And spreads his lies the Beltway ‘round
To keep his pockets full
That little lying boy so bland
Is now a lying Congressman
With power over all the land
And hogwash in his heart
But now his native gift for fraud
Strikes no one as unduly odd
He is, of all that crew, by God
A well-respected part.


I’ve scoured the pantry of my heart
For morsels sweet to tell
About the honey-roasted tart
Who has me in her spell
O’er skin like large-curd cottage cheese
Falls vermicelli hair
As limp and oily as you please
To chuck-roast shoulders there
Those marbled eyes, prosciutto wads
Stuffed neatly in her face
Ripe eggplant lips, like okra pods,
Disintegrate in place
With fingers thin as pretzel sticks
She cleans two pie-crust ears
With corn-cob tongue she chastely licks
Espresso-stained veneers
Great feet like racks of baby-backs
A cauliflower nose
Those gams, like hams with turkey tracks
Turn cheddar in repose
Her breath a piquant nasal treat
Of eggs and sauerkraut
Her voice a satisfying bleat
That I can’t live without
In this, the larder of my soul
She’s just the meal I wish
From soup to nuts, my Noodle Bowl
Is quite a tasty dish!

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