On this, the darkest night of nights Of beastly dreams and ghostly lights I try to dodge the Devil’s host And ponder on what sca...

The VA mess The IRS Where did those crises go? The few rebukes To Iran’s nukes Come from a TV show There was that plane ...

I don’t have any evidence And can’t produce the stats But I’ve seen a steep decline these days In water-cooler chats Whether manager...

  They have a guiding principle To use when times are tough But somehow still they manage To keep doing stupid stuff   But here...

It Isn’t Anything At All Like Love   Can I kiss you? Did you say yes? Can I say I like the way You look in that dress? ...

I once advised great legal minds To shut their doors and draw their blinds To hide their views and mask their wit If, on ...

Poetry is meant for Love And meditations, sage The poetry of anger Might just make me turn the page And only Dylan Thomas E...

O, to see my city like a mall gone mad Macy’s with no marble And full of flat screens The Museum Store With its reproductions o...

Some think that strength is weakness And that borders are for breaching Or that our country’s like a whale That’s set a course for beachi...

O, wither thou world? Like a ship, un-helmed Led by the wicked Or the overwhelmed Armies are fighting Of all shapes and siz...

A brand new day has dawned Another era has begun We welcome the return Of Cleveland’s second-favorite son No more will those Ohioans...

Each birthday sees another year We put into our past And we remark, as they approach, “This year’s gone by so fast” We gain a ...

I'll tell you a tale of a man and a town And the town's tale I'm telling you first But it don't matter much Cause to ...

The lies we’ve heard This year, to date Are multiple and myriad There’s not a grain of truth In any sentence, phrase or period...

Congresspersons, gals and guys Exalt the art of compromise They sit, they talk, they schmooze, they chat. You give me this. I’ll ...

When I was young, my father read The Times and The Tribune The Times came in the morning and the Trib, the afternoon   He pour...

I sit up nights in my abode Trying hard to pen an ode Praying that the week’s events’ll Find their way down through my pencil ...

They’ll tell you this tomorrow ‘Cause they told you this before All across this country On our women, there’s a war   Men d...

Seven million sign ups Ain’t that swell Baghdad Bob is alive and well He changed his name For just one Day From Baghdad Bob...

Reporters all like brouhahas They sure are lots of fun You don’t know what’s a brouhaha Well, Watergate was one Bridgegate i...