by Rick Young | Mar 2, 2020 | Poem
Amy joined the race in a snowstorm.
Now she’s dropping out in a shit storm.
She joins a list of famous Minnesotans,
all of whose candidacy was verboten.
Harold Stassen, Gene McCarthy, Hubert Humphrey, all
lost but none were quite so bad as Walter Mondale’s fall.
Now she’ll throw support to Joe,
then go back into the snow,
root for Vikings, Timberwolves and Twins.
Back to Senate she will trod,
hoping against hope, by god,
that the person we have chosen wins.
by Rick Young | Mar 1, 2020 | Poem
Here comes the month-long countdown to the final four.
Good bet that Kim will be there, Don and Vlad for sure.
But who will win that final spot’s a matter of opinion,
in the final bracket that determines world dominion.
Saudi’s bin Salman gets tough when all is on the line.
He’s even chopped up journalists, dissolved in alkaline.
Turkey’s Erdogan is probably best known for his purges.
He’s an anti-semite with great autocratic urges.
Asad of Syria gets many Putin torture tips.
He’s on the edge and uses chemicals instead of whips.
Venezuela’s Maduro is an extreme long shot,
thug behavior and corruption’s about all he’s got.
All will be revealed in the final game in June.
Winner gets to go to Mars, loser gets the moon.
