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Thursday, September 15, 2005

I DUBYA SIR KARL DE ROVE

by Bill Costley


Dubya drops a shiny dime, coyly;
as Sir Karl drops onto loyal knee.
Dubya chuckles "Good dog, boy!
I kin see yuh lurnt a lot frum me!

A shiny dime saved’s a dime urnt,
s'whut Pres’d’nt Reagan, uh, lurnt!
but Pres’d’nt Truman's pretty far:
The bus stop’s...right ovuh thar."


Bill Costley serves on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco chapter of the National Writers Union.