Sunday, December 20, 2009

Time in rhyme: 2009

Bailouts, flu
And stimuli
Health care
Day and night
A year of vast
Bemusement
With things both
Big and trite

The first year
Of Obama
The last one
For MJ
Thirteen-figure
Deficits
Madoff
Put away

The hue and cry
Was socialist
Banks too big
To fail
GNP-size
Bonuses
Cash for Clunkers
Sailed

Town Hall
Apoplectics
Teabagging
Redefined
Death panels
For the feeble
Comity
Hard to find

A Nobel Peace
For aura
A summit
Held with beer
Public option
Mania
Employment
Disappeared

Climategate
Conspiracies
Yankees
Got the rings
Olympics
Smiled at Rio
Vampire chic
Ka-chinged

Kenyan birth
Polemic
Balloon Boy
Punk’d the land
SC’s Guv did
Argentines
Tiger razed
His brand

Serena
Had a meltdown
Letterman
Had his staff
More war for
Us and Afghans
Karzai wrapped
In graft

D-list White House
Crashers
Palin shilled
A book
Burlusconi’s
Bell rung
Polanski
Got the hook

Wise Latina
Dust-up
Susan Boyle
Could sing
Jet landings
On the Hudson
Cronkite
Got his wings

Engaging
And enraging
A lot and not
To cheer
But here’s change
To believe in:
It’s only up
From here