{"id":10867,"date":"2017-10-02T05:00:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=10867"},"modified":"2017-09-29T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T20:12:06","slug":"your-weekly-politickle-out-of-bounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/your-weekly-politickle-out-of-bounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Weekly Politickle: OUT OF BOUNDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

OUT OF BOUNDS
\nIf you\u2019re good on a stage or a court,
\nYou\u2019ll enjoy our unflagging support,
\nBut don\u2019t offer us clues
\nTo your vacuous views:
\nStick to acting or playing a sport.<\/p>\n

\n

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

SUPER BAWL
\nSeeing tirades and tantrums begin
\nWell before Donald Trump was sworn in,
\nFake adults throwing fits
\nLike some overgrown kids,
\nAren\u2019t you glad these big brats didn\u2019t win?
\n(2017)<\/p>\n

7.4.15
\nWe\u2019re still standing, and standing unbowed,
\nWe\u2019re Americans, naturally proud,
\nAnd we make this forecast:
\nThat this won\u2019t be the last
\nJuly Fourth celebration allowed.
\n(2015)<\/p>\n

DEPENDENCE DAY
\n\u201cI remember how some of us tried:
\nHow we fought, how we failed, how we cried,
\nHow we few knew the worth
\nOf this last hope on earth.
\nI was there when America died.\u201d
\n(2012)<\/p>\n

REPUBLIC
\nOur Creator has blessed us a lot
\nSince the sound of that round-the-world shot,
\nBut how long will we be
\nStill the land of the free
\nIf the people don\u2019t know what we\u2019ve got?
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

REVOLTING DEVELOPMENT
\nRevolution\u2019s a natural desire
\nWhen we lack what our natures require,
\nBut it loses its glow
\nWhen oppressed people go
\nFrom the frying pan into the fire.
\n(2011)<\/p>\n

INDEPENDENCE DAY
\nAll the fireworks exploding on high,
\nCelebrating the Fourth of July,
\nSymbolize how we fought
\nFor that world-changing thought:
\nIf we cannot live free, we shall die.
\n(2008)<\/p>\n

WORLD FREEDOM
\nIf freedom can come to Romanians,
\nAlbanians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians,
\nWhy must others abide
\nWhile their freedom\u2019s denied:
\nBrother Syrians, Saudis, Iranians?
\n(2006)<\/p>\n

REVOLUTION REVERIE
\nI attend every fireworks show
\nWith the spirits of men you may know:
\nGeneral Washington,
\nThomas Jefferson,
\nAdams, Madison, and Monroe.
\n(2006)<\/p>\n

ANTHEM<\/span> FELLOW
\nWith Bates, Berlin, and Key,
\nI salute this \u201cland of the free,\u201d
\nThis \u201cland that I love . . .
\nWith the light from above,\u201d
\nStretched \u201cfrom sea to shining sea.\u201d
\n(2002)<\/p>\n

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

ONE LAW
\nEqual justice is our paradigm
\nAnd applies to commission of crime.
\nThat\u2019s why Comey and Lynch
\nShould both feel the \u201cpinch\u201d
\nAnd Obama and Clinton do time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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