Delay the election ’til the virus settles down.
\nVote count will be easier with so few folks around.
\nThe good\u00a0folks who elect me will be only the immune.
\nPerhaps I’ll turn the country into just one big commune.
\nNot like Easy Rider or the wacky Manson thing,
\nbut just a bunch of rich men who will all my praises sing.
\nI’ll travel through our great\u00a0vast land and be put up in castles.
\nThey’ll favor me with fortunes and I’ll get to rape the vassals.
\nThe Isle of Epstein, just one stop on my best pleasures\u00a0tour;
\nwe’ll have stops in Agra, Baghdad, Kuala Lumpur.
\nI don’t want to rule the world. I’m not a power slut.
\nI just want to make sure in the end I get my cut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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