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(Stratford on Avon)  Nov. 29, 2016    Edward Lear has always been credited with the invention of the limerick, but recently discovered notebooks cast doubt on the origin of that often juvenile poetic form.  The notebooks were hidden in a box under the floorboards of an old school building in Stratford on Avon.  While experts are still examining the handwritten poems, some scholars believe them to be the work of a young William Shakespeare, or a teenage boy or girl later calling himself or herself Shakespeare, or a collaborative work of several youths later writing under the name of William Shakespeare.  Below are two samples (with modern spelling) which were later reworked into popular and successful plays.

What light do I see in that window

''Tis the east where those brilliant rays show

Dawn is not here yet

The radiance is Juliet

And the moon seems so pale next her glow.

To exist or desist is the question

To suffer the arrows of fortune

Or sleep, eternally,

To dream, possibly

Who knows what we see when life's done?

Lies and Nonsense You Had Better Believe 

You can’t trust a word he says, but you had better believe it.

He lost in the popular vote,

But he’s at the helm of this boat

With his beliefs

We are heading for reefs

So, how can we keep it afloat?

I don’t think legalizing marijuana will solve the problem.

Recovery may take quite a while

The rhetoric was vicious and vile,

The wounds of division

Are met with derision

How long can I maintain denial?

With Friends Like These

After Trump called Hillary Clinton the most corrupt politician in this country’s history, and accused her of treason, Kellyanne Conway criticized Harry Reid’s description of Trump as a sexual predator, saying “be very careful about the way you characterize somebody.”

A warning from Kellyanne Conway - 

Harry Reid, you should watch what you say,

That’s slanderous opinion.

Accusing Clinton

Of corruption and treason’s OK.

Either he’s a sexual predator, or he’s a bigger liar than we realized.  And his first appointments do not bode well for being “President for all Americans”

Donald Trump has just loaded a cannon

For advisor he put his own man in

As chief strategist

An overt misogynist -

Breitbart dot com’s Stephen Bannon,

Repeat 7 times, changing line 4 to: 

A white supremacist

Self-proclaimed Leninist

A bigoted racist

Anti Islamist

Alt right journalist

A spousal abusist

A conspiracy theorist

I will really miss Gwen Ifill.

R.I.P. - Republicans in Power

The G.O.P declares a mandate, on account of losing the popular vote, losing seats in both the Senate and the House, and wants us to sit back, relax and enjoy the spite.

They tell us to proffer respect

To the man who is President Elect

But first let’s recall,

They gave Barack none at all

A precedent they hope we’ll reject.

It didn’t take long.  So far the promised change seems to be to bring back the lobbyists and former government officials who created the war in Iraq and the Great Recession.  

He vows to take our country ‘back’,

Obama says cut him some slack.

If he picks Giuliani

Gingrich or Christie

He’s a long way down the wrong track.

United Divided States  - R.I.P. 

I missed the support that was forming

I missed all the signs and the warning

So last night was hell

I didn’t sleep well

And woke up this morning in mourning.

It Ain’t Over ’Til It’s Over, and It Won’t Be Over Then 

I hope someday before I’m senile, that I’ll be able to forget about him.

I can’t cope with Donald Trump’s views

I so hope the gasbag will lose

A horrid nightmare

Who appears everywhere

As he gropes for more ways to abuse.

Standard run of the mill lie:  “I never said Obama wasn’t born in the USA.”

Next level lie.  “I just asked why so many people thought Obama wasn’t born in the USA.”

Up one more level:  “Hillary Clinton was the first person to question whether Obama was born in the USA.”

Almost there:  “Hillary Clinton sent a staff member to Kenya to try to find Obama’s birth certificate.”

What do you call this?:  “Obama should thank me, because I put an end to the rumor that Hillary started that he wasn’t born in the USA.”

If the truth is the ground, Donald’s flying

He hits orbital height without trying

It’s so damn absurd

We need a new word

An expression for On Beyond Lying.

 Remember the Dr. Suess book On Beyond Zebra, where he extends the alphabet beyond Z?  That territory was much more pleasant.

FBI - Fools Barge In

So, the FBI isn’t supposed to try to influence any election, it is against policy to talk about ongoing investigations, or release information so close to an election, but the unverified suspicion that e mails on a computer that Clinton never used, that Huma Abedin rarely used, were most likely on devices already reviewed by the FBI, that the FBI has no idea about their relevance because they haven’t looked at them, because if they looked at them without a warrant they would be inadmissible, that was enough for Comey to announce to the world, through the Republican Congressional Committee Chairmen, that the FBI had finally found something to skewer Hillary Clinton with.  And he had the Chutzpah to say he was in a bind, so he covered his ass.  Sorry, I’m pissed.

I’m in a bind, you hear Comey howl!

Clinton wins - there’s no harm and no foul

But if Comey’s gift

Gives Donald a lift

Then Jimmy is Don’s lifelong pal.

And Comey was wrong about one more thing.  It’s not Wiener’s LAPTOP, it’s his CROTCHTOP computer.

The crap slinging has moved up a notch

Anthony Wiener will anxiously watch

As the FBI gropes

I’m sure that he hopes

Something big will emerge from his crotch.

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