John Jackson

There’s a tool for the Senate minority
Used to force a super-majority.
It’s called filibuster.
Trump would kill a cluster
Who say keeping it is a priority.

“Dick Cheney! It’s your time to go!”
Said the devil from Hades below.
“Your legacy is
Being father to Liz.”
Cheney just shrugged, and said “So?”

New York City, each nook and each crannie,
Has elected, for Mayor, Mamdani.
Muslim and socialist
Now on Trump’s fecal list
Because New York likes Zohran more than he.

Our humor impaired head of state
Threw a party at his seaside estate.
Convinced that the patsies
See him as Jay Gatsby,
He keeps telling himself that he's great

Fed benefits for persons not working:
A MAGA definition of shirking.
The argument is weaker
Coming from the House Speaker.
Just who's chain does he think he is jerking?

A fentanyl scourge on our land,
More policing of smugglers planned.
Boats will sink, people die,
To cut off supply.
Nothing done to cut off the demand.

He makes like he’s one of the boys,
What he likes to make most is just noise.
So he’s requesting
Nuclear testing
So he can play games with the toys.

Epstein murdered (still no evidence)
And his infamy’s grown ever since.
It does not take science
To see his list of clients
No longer names an English prince.

Chicago kids, colorfully massed,
For Halloween's coming up fast.
ICE is enlightening
What it means to be frightening
By having some children tear-gassed.

The American poor get a slap
From this Fed government shutdown crap.
Feds will, if they’re able,
Keep food off the table.
The poor citizens are ready to SNAP.

LA Dodgers, from Brooklyn beginnings
Added one more to their winnings.
Last night beat the Jays
And part of me says
Should count twice ‘cuz it took 18 innings.

He wants to make sure we’re impressed
With his most recent cognitive test.
He won’t tell us why.
He had MRI,
He says only it was the best!

A friend of his needed relief
Keep his land out from underneath.
Not yours nor mine,
It’s Argentine,
As America asks “Where’s the beef?”

The body that’s led by Mike Johnson:
Like the East Wing, it’s just gone, son.
Not restarting the nation,
One more week’s vacation
As we hear the congressional swan song.

He acts like he’s got some cojones
Replacing good folk with his cronies.
But they’ll only do
What he tells them to
While he racks up a few more fel-o-nies.

Like a toddler's continual frolic
Interrupted by loud noisy cholic:
Very destructive.
Very instructive,
The White House ruin is symbolic.

Saving East Wing was not worth the trouble
So it’s coming down on the double.
Reminds me of Gaza
Or a Ukrainian plaza.
The People’s House being churned into rubble.

Democracy, so rough and unpolished,
Perhaps it should just be abolished.
And so this new least King
Starts with the East Wing,
Rule of law, and the White House, demolished.

Faked AI video, a most honest thing:
Flying a fighter jet on the wing
Dumping his shit again
On American citizens.
Pilot Trump, with the crown of a King

Live fire over a busy highway
For a king who wants everything ‘my way’.
Harmless artillery
Seem contradictory.
It’s more of the Trump/Newsome byplay.

Left wing terrorists making their mark
With Antifa and all forces dark!
As a nation protested
Not one was arrested.
It was really a walk in the park.

False charges the administration brings,
Antifa is one more of those things.
The head that is crowned
Cannot stand the sound
Of citizens crying "No Kings".

Back home, a three-day nor’easter
Has knocked olde Cape Cod on its keister.
We’re lucky, though,
If it had been snow
We’d not be dug out until Easter.

Indigenous Peoples’ Day, today,
Has simply been MAGA’d away.
We’re supposed to encompass
Christopher Columbus.
The Injuns don’t get any say.

Why do we give pilot training to Qatar?
(Get your mind out of the gutter!)
Let me explain,
They gave him a plane
And he melted in their hands just like butter.

In October, America thinks about haunting,
And what bizarre dress we’ll be flaunting.
Costumed people we’re meeting
Might be trick-or-treating.
In Portland Oregon they're taunting.

Insurrectionists: people who curse
As their situation gets worse.
While his citizens suffer
Trump has a buffer
And the money still flows to his purse.

When he gives the D.O.J. names
It's prosecute, or go down in flames!
When he said 'Show me
'Letitia and Comey',
The name of the week must be James.

Overheard in the White House “Oh Hell!
“They did not give the boss the Nobel.
“What do you think we
“Should warn Helsinki?
“Sending ICE or a nuke won’t go well…”

We've hiked along canyon and forest,
Where the creek and the crickets have chorused
But we will save
Another day for the cave
Because our poor legs are the sorest!