by Anne G. Davies
The candidates grow shriller and wordier
Their high-toned campaigns daily get dirtier
Do they notice that they’re headin’
For a Democratic Armageddon?
Let them stop arguing about who is readier
Who is smarter, who is steadier
Whose health care package fills the bill
Who will work better with Capitol Hill
Who will get us out of Iraq
Who will bring the economy back
Whose spouse said what, whose money is tainted
Whose virtues are too brightly painted
Is there some magic potion or chemical
To make this odd couple less polemical
And get them to focus on their GOP rival
Lest neither have any chance of survival.
Each one, by the other, may be slain
Thus electing a grateful John McCain.
Anne G. Davies is a fund-raising writer by profession and a writer and versifier by avocation. Her work has been published in local and regional papers. She lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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