The Good Ship Obama

The Borkowski poet in residence returns with some thoughts on the upcoming American election

Sarah Palin’s impaled on a world that is failin’
Joe Biden is bidin’ his time.
Old John McCain strives again and again
to prove the economy’s fine.

Barack Obama stands taller and calmer
on the shoulders of Democrats past.
He seems victory-bound, this statesmanlike charmer,
but how long will the honeymoon last?

Obama’s getting barracked ‘bout his colour and Iraq
but still he don’t notice the knocks.
The average Joe’s seen the economy slow,
just wants a Prez who’ll take care of his stocks.

The hottest of tips is McCain’s had his chips
& that Palin’ll be free to hunt moose.
But we all know what happens to unsinkable ships
& what they did to the golden-egged goose.

If there’s only one truth we learned from George Bush
it’s that elections are easily lost.
You can’t do an Al Gore, be too smug and too sure,
’cause the voters don’t like to be crossed.

And though Palin’s impaled on a world that is failin’
& Joe Biden is bidin’ his time,
old John McCain might suddenly start sailin’
from the ridiculous to the sublime

cause voters are fickle and a hubristic stick’ll
bring out the Republican vote,
while the Democrat vote’ll slow to a trickle
if Obama’s supporters just float.

The hottest of tips is McCain’s had his chips
& that Palin’ll be free to hunt moose.
But we all know what happens to unsinkable ships
& what they did to the golden-egged goose.