by Bruce Bennett

“There’s only so much resistance that Republican senators can muster.
Only so many times that lap dogs this thoroughly muzzled can bark.”
—op-ed in The New York Times

Do not expect a bloodbath.
There won’t be barks and yaps.
These tamed dogs will stay quiet.
Oh, just a few perhaps

May growl a bit or whimper
to show the way they feel,
but they will still stay muzzled
and, when they’re told to, heel.