I'm a poet and longtime Kos reader from Iowa City, and I've been hired by the Iowa
Press-Citizen to contribute a regular piece of doggerel poetry to their opinion page.
The idea presented to me was to do something like what Calvin Trillin does for the Nation with his "deadline poetry" series (but without Trillin's hefty syndication fee).
I've been posting them here at Kos, and my latest entry steals from Markos and his righteous indignation at the Sierra Club's endorsement of Lincoln Chaffee. If nothing else, I've come up with a catchy title to steal for your future blog posts on the topic. My poem's below the fold.
The Sierra Flub
The world is full of foolish liberals,
whose thinking spoils
their chance to win an election.
Take the Sierra Club's decision
to endorse a Senate Republican
who goes by the name Lincoln
Chaffee. Two days later, he backs
One of the worst of corporate hacks
To power within the E.P.A.
That's how a Republican must play
these days, or else face the wrath
of evangelic electoral math.
Liberals, I present Lincoln Chafee:
a "moderate" in all his finery
selling out to survive a Republican primary.