Bush & Company

(Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister-designate, is to be named to that office May 7, 2008. Under an altered system, the prime minister will wield more power than the president)

The Russians have a new p.m.,
A patriarch to govern them
Or likelier, to rule by fear
All those regarded not his peer,

While in a stylish world apart,
The progeny of famous men
Enjoy those benefits that start
With that same power seen yet again.

The round repeats, history has shown,
In every age, in mny a land
And such a nation could be known
As one that parallels our own.

How can George be so content
When he's caused so much discontent?
Has he a firm conviction still
His facilitating skill
Will bring about mutual goodwill
In Palestine and Israel?
Perhaps the Rovester's hatched a scheme
To rescue George's failed regime.

George says his surge spells sure success---
Does that explain his cheerfulness
Or is it simply someone else
Will have to straighten out the mess?

Five years before anniversary five,
Four thousand troops were still alive,

Who might have been. . .Who might have done. . .
Cruelly, their lives had just begun;

But George says it's all right, because
His war is just;---a noble cause.