Disraeli's slippery pole of politics,

The place for a  pitbull with lipstick?

But try as Sarah might,

Her gifts were just too slight,

So it's back to Alaska for the MILFy hick.

If you ever get stuck for the winter in Donner's Pass, I predict you will be the first one voted in as dinner by the rest of the party.

Donner Party Animal puns
GaGambler sticks to his guns
Then along comes this Doc
with his own verbal shlock
to overwhelm the prodigal sons.

And so here is Doc Gonzo's solution
To all this verbal pollution
Go find a sweet honey
And donate some money
Support the Sex Revolution!

(I wouldn't recommend sex, trikes, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me!)

Literary devices like metaphores and analogies should have a meaning.  The clearer the meaning, the more it rings true, the better it is.

My love's lips being like a rose are because both are red. If I said they were like a cucumber, it would leave the smart reader saying, "Huh?  What does that mean?  Why is she like a cucumber.?"

I am not sure if Disreli ever ran a strip joint, and cannot find a reference to that in any on-line bios.  Why Disreli?  

I have heard of slippery slopes, but not slippery poles, and my first thought was strip clubs.  Figures. Look what one of my hobby is.  I am not sure what a slippery pole is or why the political arena is like one.

There is a theory of modern poetry that it doesn't have to mean anything, it is all in the reader's interpretation.  I think this is really lame.  If this is a good basis for poetry or literature, why should the writer even think about what he is saying?  It doesn't matter. Okay, I am showing my bias.

I mean, it has been 4 decades, and I still don't know who the Egg Man is? And the Walrus. It means Paul is dead, but he is one of the two still alive. So much for that theory.

If you want meaning, it should be clear.  

One final note that I hesitate to add because I am not sure if this is really technically right in a literary sense, although it feels right to me.  There is something about satire that should be "current."

Today time does fly so fast and the 24-hour news cycle makes 9-11 ancient history so that people forget. "That was like so yesterday, daddy."

After the seeming millenium that the election took, it is hard to believe that it really is two weeks old, so Palin is still "news" in one sense.  With that said, I don't know if people remain a "hot topic" that long in the era of 15-minute fame.  (Probably showing my age. Today it is probably 3-minute.)

As I say, this last one is more of a gut feeling that cast in stone

I can live without trikes, but the other two are absolute necessities for me.

Donner Party Animal puns
DoctorGonzo,
"GaGambler sticks to his guns
Then along comes this Doc
with his own verbal shlock
to overwhelm the prodigal sons.

And so here is Doc Gonzo's solution
To all this verbal pollution
Go find a sweet honey
And donate some money
Support the Sex Revolution!

(I wouldn't recommend sex, trikes, or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me!)



I know we have had major disagreements, but Man you make me laugh a lot.. Good Poem and to the point..

Is there anything worse,
Than inept verse?

Perhaps dull prose, poorly composed
Inevitibly causing you to doze?

In the bitter cold and dark,
He tries his hand at verse as a lark?

While none of these ditties is a winner,
The amusement value keeps him from beoming dinner?

actually much better.

Benjamin Disraeli was, in the second half of the 19th centurty, the Conservative Party leader and sometimes Prime Minister of England.  Prior to that, he was  a successful novelist and essayist [in some ways  the Tom Wolfe or Truman Capote of his time.  Why is it that so many men and women of letters are such compulsive and shameless self-promoters?  Well, no matter].  [George Will is quite the fan of Disraeli, only Dickens, baseball and the Chicago Cubs seem to rate more highly for Will.] And somewhere along the line Disraeli compared competing for political office to be like climbing a slippery pole [or a greasy pole, i forget exactly which].  I'm betting this is what our versemaster friend Donner is alluding to his his latest bit of doggerel.

Let Donner get Sarah Palin out og his system, perhaps he'll then fall silent or turn his attentions to other topics and personages. Perhaps he'll immortalize some of us in verse?

and I'm laughin' so hard I'm cryin'!

there IS nothing worse
than dull boring verse
go call up some honey
and give her that money
that's burning a hole in your purse!