Cuyahoga Dreamin’
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Cleveland, City of my Dreams,
Where the Cuyahoga streams
Down to meet Lake Erie's blue,
Cleveland OH, how do you do?
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Here a man may pack a rod
And no one will think it odd -
Handguns, rifles, rockets, missiles -
Just don't wave a water pistol.
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In the streets outside the hall,
Things are shaping for a brawl.
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Everywhere the barricades
Rise to stem the rising rage.
Cleveland's finest will appear
Clad in heavy riot gear.
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Activists, both pro- and anti-
From Anchorage to Ypsilanti:
Black Lives Matter, staunch Progressive -
Meet the Populist (Regressive).
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Neo Nazis, Aryan Nation,
Whites frustrated by privation,
Trump fans all, embrace with glee
Jim Crow as the New PC.
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All the air with tension’s humming,
Are you ready for what's coming?
None but the stomach strong and hardy,
Can endure the Grand Old Party.
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Hail the Party styled "of Lincoln!"
Winking, slinking, double-thinking,
Party hacks and power brokers,
Big-time donors, cigar smokers,
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Stalwarts, Mugwumps, neocons
Dinosaurs and mastodons
Delegates who might switch sides
Unless captured and hogtied.
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Pretty thin on rising stars,
Speakers from the bottom drawers
They too may disaffiliate...
Dissociate...repudiate.
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Though the signs outside are dire
Direr scenes may yet transpire
In the Lock and Load Arena,
Blows more savage, anguish keener,
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Pushing, shoving, brickbats plenty,
Smoke-filled rooms like 1920!
Floor fights, fist-fights, mass confusion!
Total party dissolution!
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Meteors from outer space!
Zombies, Harpies, Nancy Grace!
Donald channeling Mussolini,
Telling us about his weenie!
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No, it’s simply too grotesque!
Satire, parody, burlesque
Fall dead beneath the toxic fumes,
The nearer that Convention looms.
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I can’t go on...I need a snifter
Liquor’s quick, but dope is swifter
A fix, a snort, some crack, a jay,
To drive these images away…
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But I’ll be back for more, in time
So rant away on Kos’s dime.
To Be Continued
Disclaimer: Cleveland, Ohio is a fine city full of very nice people, so please do not construe this post as a slur on that metropolis.
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