And now another gem from TMV’s favorite artist of verse, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:
Sporing Time For Neocons
They’ll soon be gone, the Neocons
That gave Bushboy advice
Their power to more damage do
With them will go how nice.
Some will on K Street find a home
Their Bush work there is blessed
Some will on academe descend
A cozy tenured nest.
But most of this malignant crew
To think tanks will migrate
To help them heal their bruised egos
Fat sinecures await.
They’ll fester and they’ll fatten there
Protected from the flack
Their failed policies have wrought
Until one day they’re back.
Copyright 2007 Michael Silverstein
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.