So the candidate

Is less than candid

And the office holder

Heavy handed,
While the Senate

Dabbles in senility

And the city feeds

On incivility.
When fact is fiction,

Faction fact,

What tribute

Should the tribe exact?
Few words follow

Veni vidi vici veto.

Forensics

Stuffs its face with Cheetos
Like rodents

Gnawing at a rostrum.

The Social Wars —

Now there’s a custom
Any pleb can get behind.

Time again to face the nation.

One in ten

Is decimation.
Kevin Craft is our Poet in Residence for January.

Previously: A Few Preexisting Conditions, and Lesson Plan.