Football Follies There’s one thing about football That makes fans cry for mercy That something is the specter of A quarterback controversy W...

Let every flag and speech remind us That primaries are now behind us Now, each one as his conscience guides Must take the torch and choose u...

That boy who ran the marathon The girl who watched your kid The cop who trained on weekends Just look at what they did They volunteered for ...

The Healers There are these other people We seldom ever see They're hardly even noticed By folks like you and me These other men and w...

The famous can do plenty But we average can do more Because the famous can’t set foot … Inside a 99 cents store And the average guy can let ...

Forget the squabbles Forget the spin Forget the shape that The budget’s in Forget the hearings And masquerading Forget the spokesmen Who’re ...

Crisis Management By the beard of Dionysus Another week, another crisis Even Nixon with all his tricks Could only muster a feeble six But th...

I want to smoke a nice cigar And put the top down on my car I want to drive along the shore And not check e-mails any more I want to sing wh...

I plan to wax poetic Well, what else would I do? Regarding quizzes, tests, exams An, yes, assessments, too. As children we disliked them Inv...

I think of Will, A special boy I know Who, when I met him first Hid behind his father’s leg And wailed when cars went by Afraid in ways we d...

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Song of the Calm Conservative In politics, I’ve always thought My outlook to be sanguine I’m never one to hit the streets With pots and pans...

I know it sounds unusual And just a wee bit quirky But government is giving us A second slice of Turkey I’ve never heard such nonsense All t...

Early in my college days The future looked fantastic Preparing for a long career In aluminum or plastic But then quite unexpectedly I felt m...

Consequences by Tarzana Joe We long have heard that poet’s tale A kingdom lost for want of nail The lesson that should give us pause is We ...

Some folks are very grateful for The country that we’ve got But others see a better way And often dream, “Why not?” For you see there are th...

It started out with evening gowns That couldn’t get much tackier But who’d have thought this week that was Could possibly get wackier Pelosi...

I didn’t believe in miracles The Red Sea never parted And Joshua didn’t stop the sun Oh, please don’t get me started Noah never floated And...

I wish that all those Mayan guys Had been a lot less cryptic So I could make precise-er plans For times apocalyptic Their P.D.A.s were made ...

A Poem for Glen from Texas Let’s get this Rodeo going Just listen to that crowd They’re ready. They’re ready. The bull riders are finally f...

2010 by Tarzana Joe When near next November’s nigh A mad majority disappears In spotless sun Taxes rise As realization settles On a seething...

Growl By Tarzana Joe with a limited borrowing from Allen Ginsberg They say that every Inuit Knows a thousand words for snow What we need in ...

Thanksgiving 2009 By Tarzana Joe While thanking God this week for all our blessings is the norm I say we should be thankful for the calm and...

Twilight of the Senate © 2009 by Tarzana Joe At fashions of Parisians Americans would gape While we all totaled tea leaves The French enjoye...

The cork's been popped The bubble burst The leaky ship has sailed Pelosi's Health proposal Has finally been unveiled It's better...