This is a poem I wrote in 2009 during the fight over affordable health care. People (and I use the
term loosely to describe the fox news nuts) were more worried that the insurance companies and their multi-million a year ceo's might have to give up a few shekels than the 40 million people without health insurance.

The Insurance Executives Are Laughing

 

Their asses off. They

Have to be,

Watching this

Great outpouring of

Sympathy for their cause.

People are yelling, carrying

Signs saying

Give more to the companies

We’re worried the CEO’s

Won’t make enough money.

 

And yet, it’s hard

To hear the executives

Laughing over the

Raucous uproar

Of the corporate lobbyists

And their minions,

The Republicans.

 

glenn beck

 

Glenn Beck is channeling God.

The Fox Channel

Is channeling Glenn Beck.

Poem of the day

 

September Eleven

 

Not as important as

The investment bankers

Not heroes like

The firefighters,

They were the janitors

And waitresses, the window cleaners

Shoe shiners and

The rest of

The forgotten third

World workers

Who died on eleven

September, the people

From countries

No longer welcomed.

 

Layover at Ted Stevens International Airport

Layover at Ted Stevens International Airport

 

There is a stuffed polar bear in a glass display cage

Up on its hind legs

Looming over the ticket counter.

Other bears populate

The departure and arrival gates

No longer endangered.

At the Anchorage airport

Ted Stevens’ spirit

Is everywhere

And when the drilling

Finally starts,

As we all know it will,

There are sure to

Be more trophies

And more oil money

n the pockets of politicians.

A Sarah Palin Poem

A Sarah Palin Poem

 

A voice like hers

Was made for silent movies.

Her perfect nails scraping a chalkboard

Raking me over the coals.

There is terror in her voice

And loathing for everything in her sights.

I dream of her at night

And never want to wake up.