A Different Texas Politician

The Cuban, Irish-American, Canadian Texas Politician named Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz has an interesting family history.

Cruz senior once worked for Castro

Then religion called him to follow.

Cruz junior’s a debater

A government berater

A follower of hubris and ego.

And some different ideas.

Climate change is “flat-earther’s” ruse

According to Senator Cruz

He’s Ivy League trained

But Tea Party brained

A brain is a sad thing to lose.

He’s memorized the US constitution

But says government’s a bad institution

His career has been spent

Working for government

Will a shut down be his contribution?

Deja Views

Remember how easily we would liberate and democratize Iraq, and how the oil revenue would pay for everything?   Well, last week one of those piece of cake war shills published an Op-Ed in the NY Times saying that our only option is to bomb Iran.  Now. 

The warmonger John Bolton is back

To say that we have to attack

Iran now.  No admission

Or sign of contrition

That he was dead wrong on Iraq.

If I had predicted that Harvard would win the NCAA basketball tournament last year, would the NY Times publish my prediction for this year?  and yet…

His prophecy on Iraq proved untrue

Should the Times waste ink on his view

And print his Op-Ed

Or should they instead

Give discredit where discredit is due?

 More On Upcoming HS Reunions

My friends help me to remember the good stuff and we usually don’t talk about how …

Most of my teen years were spent

Repressing my internal ferment

I was scheming and hoping

And grasping and groping

To find what was really important.

If you could go back, would you then remember what you didn’t know then, but you do know now?

Would I relive my adolescence again?

In reruns do different things happen?

Could I really expect 

To improve or correct

All the dumb moves that I made back then?

What do YOU Expect?

What first comes to your mind when you hear the word limerick?  Nantucket?  Smut? …?  Somehow the typical limerick goes something like this:

A young person from a rhyming locality

Has an attribute or sexual proclivity,

This rare feature leading

To behavior exceeding

The limits of real possibility.

Life, Limericks and the Pursuit of Happiness has been on the market for almost three years now, and I think sales just reached 20 or so, so maybe:

After years it’s time I admitted

I’m disappointed, dejected, discomfited 

My book sales are slow

So now I know

The demand for clean limericks is limited.