Here’s a special original 2008 presidential campaign poetic commentary by TMV’s favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet.
The Clinton Refurbishment Poem
We watch the Clinton soap op’ra,
Its daily boom and bust,
A litany of well-honed boasts,
And best forgotten lust.
To some they seemed a played out shtick,
A pair from yesteryear,
‘Til Hillary refurbed their hopes,
With just a single tear.
Copyright 2008 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.