Poems of the Week

Ménage à Trois

by David Hedges

The Prez drops Wednesday’s cable news,
Whose anchors show him no respect,
And watches Roseanne put the screws
To alt-left losers who refuse
To bend their knees and genuflect.

Her sister Jackie plays the fool,
The left-wing bird with half a brain
Who perches on her ducking stool
While making faces, dribbling drool,
And croaking like a whooping crane.

Poor Dan is caught between two rocks,
The Wealthy and the Working Class.
One fries his eggs and darns his socks;
The other flocks with chicken hawks
And doesn’t know his ass from grass.

Dan gives the one he lives with breaks,
Tiptoeing down the center stripe,
Ignoring boring bellyaches.
Roseanne and Don? A pair of flakes
Who share their love affair with hype.