tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36266173.post4207940199590424350..comments2023-10-30T07:13:07.542-07:00Comments on Governments' Secrets: George H.W. Bush backs John McCainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36266173.post-40112161869177582232007-12-05T08:40:00.000-08:002007-12-05T08:40:00.000-08:00SILENCE AFTER DEATHSo it may be you choose to live...SILENCE AFTER DEATH<BR/><BR/>So it may be you choose to live<BR/>Believing "all men lie,"<BR/>Better your own self to forgive:<BR/>Believe it then--not I.<BR/><BR/>So you may say, "it´s politics,<BR/>And all of them, like George,<BR/>Engage in vile and dirty tricks,<BR/>Nor none can hope to purge<BR/><BR/>Such nasty Willie Horton ads<BR/>And such from the arena"--<BR/>But following the common fads<BR/>I´ll not say makes you cleaner.<BR/><BR/>George Herbert Walker Bush was praised<BR/>Because he was a slugger,<BR/>Yet mud he slung yet still gets raised,<BR/>Uniquely loathsome bugger.<BR/><BR/>He lives today with that old hag,<BR/>An ugly soul´s companion,<BR/>And in retirement he may brag<BR/>His life as one Grand Canyon.<BR/><BR/>Elderly now, so you may feel<BR/>That he has earned respect<BR/>From likes of you--I say let peal<BR/>Laughter not genuflect.<BR/><BR/>Life squandered ignominiously<BR/>Although it outward seems<BR/>To pass stress, strain and trouble free,<BR/>But only in your dreams<BR/><BR/>Might augur for the health of soul:<BR/>So fiercely I dispute it<BR/>The world must shake from pole to pole<BR/>And heaven would refute it.<BR/><BR/>When old George is at last laid down<BR/>Midst ceremonious pomp,<BR/>Then I will neither mourn nor clown,<BR/>On grave nor dance nor stomp.<BR/><BR/>When dead he will be given then<BR/>That measure of respect:<BR/>Silence--as is befitting men<BR/>When death doth souls collect.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com