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In the silk and sadly uncertain, hidden behind Great Oz's curtain,

It thrilled me - chilled me with fantastic vistas never seen before.

So that I was to fulfil the cheating, as an art and worth repeating

At my benefactors' entreating, I entered then my chambers' door.

Any wish, and nothing more.

And presently my dole grew richer

Largess flowed as water from a pitcher.

Now "Sir," said I, "not Madam, truly for your friendship I implore;

But the fact is I was sleeping,

And to my chamber you came creeping:

Soundlessly, barely peeping,

Peeping in my chambers' door

That I scarce was sure I heard you-"

Here I opened wide the door

Darkness there and scarcely more.

Then, unseen by unseen doorman,

Landing on the bust of Bormann

Perched atop my chamber door

I saw a creature, grim and venal,

Advocate of law most penal

To the desperate and the poor- only them and no one more

And on its black wings with rain a-streaming

A trace of gold, a rich vein gleaming

Gleaming as from night's pelfestrous shore

And with its beak this was a sign

For which I'd waited the whole life of mine

Promising such gifts divine and more

But then the fowl in foulest raiment

Mocked me as though a mere claimant, an article traded for payment like his many objects from the war.

"What?" I exclaimèd, spraying,

At the haunter before me, praying

That rather than his work delaying here upon my chamber door

He should his soul interrogate

Rather than insinuate that I should be a mere ingrate

To one who'd given ever more.

The man now buried deep in libel

Was, I'd swear upon the bible,

Ne'er concerned with issues tribal as others might have been before

And yes, he had the fascist china-

A wealthy man, he's used to finer

Than normal trash found in a diner but only this? Quoth the maven "Ever more."

The statue of Stalin, man of steel,

Only there to make him squeal

And every time to make him feel his horrors should never happen more

The same for Mao, and Che and Lenin

(Only Hitler was his den in)

None influenced verdicts I'm pennin'

Quoth the maven "Any more".

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ArgieBargie's avatar

Tell me more about the all the non-existent bribes Biden took, Republican assholes.

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