{"id":10902,"date":"2017-10-30T05:52:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2017-10-28T14:01:04","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T19:01:04","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-don-of-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-don-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: DON OF THE DEAD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DON OF THE DEAD
\nDeep in Boondoggle Bog, the Beast thrives,
\nUntil one day The Donald arrives.
\n\u201cThey are draining the swamp!\u201d
\nShe shrieks, running: clomp, clomp.
\n\u201cHe is coming! Run! Run for your lives!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

From the archive<\/em><\/p>\n

FORWARD<\/span>, MARSH<\/span>!
\n\u201cWe\u2019re surrounded by partisan haters,
\nResisters, subversives, and traitors:
\nWe\u00a0have struggled and strained
\nTo get the swamp drained,
\nBut we\u2019re up to our asses in gators.\u201d
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

GOOD NOOSE
\nWith more dirt every day to defend,
\nEven Hillary can now see the trend:
\n\u201cIt\u2019s just not meant to be,
\nI\u2019ll need some place to flee,
\nMy great criminal career\u2019s at an end.\u201d
\n(2016)<\/p>\n

HOLLOW WEENIE
\n\u201cI may act like Elmer Fudd
\nAnd appear to be a dud,
\nBut I\u2019m truly spectacular,
\nThe awesome Count Barackula,
\nAnd I want to suck your blood.\u201d
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

FAST FORWARD
\nI remember with special delight
\nHow each holiday had its own rite:
\nNow that commerce trumps living,
\nWe skip over Thanksgiving
\nAnd start Christmas on Halloween<\/span> night.
\n(2010)<\/p>\n

HOUSE OF HORRORS
\nBy the demons we all have been taunted
\nAs unnatural powers were flaunted,
\nBut the townsfolk will rout
\nAnd then drive the fiends out
\nOf the House on the Hill that is haunted.
\n(2009)<\/p>\n

GETTING WHAT WE ASK FOR
\nHalloween<\/span> we all shout \u201cTrick or Treat!\u201d
\nAs we hit every house on the street.
\nThe next morning we wake
\nWith a bad stomach ache,
\n\u2018Cause we had too much candy to eat.
\n(2009)<\/p>\n

NANCYLVANIA
\nWith the change in the House status quo, see
\nThe new Madame Speaker Pelosi
\nEnduring the glare
\nWith the crazed, glassy stare
\nOf a transgendered Bela Lugosi.
\n(2007)<\/p>\n

NIGHT OF THE VOTING DEAD
\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be summoned from slumberous state
\nTo endorse the quadrennial slate;
\nThen it\u2019s back to the grave,
\nWhere we\u2019ll try to behave
\n\u2018Til another electoral date!\u201d
\n(2004)<\/p>\n

THE GREAT BUMPKIN
\nLinus scans the nightscape scary
\nFor a form imaginary:
\nThere, looming tall
\nLike an orange ball,
\nGlows a pumpkin-colored Kerry!
\n(2004)<\/p>\n

HILLAREEN
\nWhat compares to the horrible fright
\nThat will haunt us on Halloween<\/span> night?
\nConsider the fear,
\nAs elections draw near,
\nGhoulish candidates soon will excite!
\n(2003)<\/p>\n

INAUGURAL NIGHT
\nBush had plenty of sleep before,
\nKnowing now he will get no more,
\nWith the clanking chain
\nAnd the cries of pain
\nFrom the ghost of a grieving Gore.
\n(2000)<\/p>\n

RECOUNT DRACULA
\nThere once was a man named Vlad
\nWho was known for a habit he had:
\nWith such pride in his nailing,
\nWhen he took to impaling
\nNo one ever would challenge his chad.
\n(2000)<\/p>\n

MR. PRECEDENT
\nWhat a vile conglomeration
\nOf every abomination:
\nIn Clinton\u2019s wake,
\nOnly villains will make
\nA bid for the nomination.
\n(1999)<\/p>\n

WHAT IS IT, E-GORE?
\nThe mad doctor was testing a drug
\nWhen he felt on his labcoat a tug:
\n\u201cMaster, oh Master,
\nWe\u2019ve got to work faster
\nTo destroy the Millennium Bug!\u201d
\n(1999)<\/p>\n

ZOMBIES
\nFrom justice they craftily fled
\nAnd avoided the sanctions they dread;
\nNow O.J. and Bill
\nCan linger at will
\nIn the night of the fast-living dead.
\n(1999)<\/p>\n

Last week\u2019s limerick<\/em><\/p>\n

URANIUM ONE
\nTo avoid an erroneous conclusion,
\nLet\u2019s begin by dispelling confusion:
\nIt was Hillary who took
\nRussian bribes like a crook,
\nIt was Hillary engaged in collusion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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