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Tick - From Papa Possum - For Countdown Day

Posted by Eudaimonia 9 years, 3 months ago to Politics
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January’s satire, “Tick,” for Countdown Day.
Enjoy, or not.

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Tick
Three sixty-five...

We will count down ev'ry hour
and we'll mark off ev'ry day
'til your marxist reign is over,
'til, at last, you're dragged away
to the cheering of the People,
to our deafening, “Hurray,”
'til your High Noon we call our
Second Independence Day.

A year is all that's left to you,
in days – three sixty-six.
Ev'ry hour, minute, second
ev'ry eye will now affix
to a timepiece that's convenient,
any calendar or clock,
to see how long we must play Hobbes
instead of playing Locke.

We will count down ev'ry hour
and we'll mark off ev'ry day
'til your marxist reign is over,
'til, at last, you're dragged away
to our swelling songs of Liberty,
to fireworks display,
'til your High Noon we call our
Second Independence Day

One last year for your treacheries
each a reminder how
if not for cowardly Congress,
you'd be impeached right now.
One last year for your legacy
of rack and ruin and coup.
One last year for your villainy...
'til last we're free of you.

We will count down ev'ry hour
and we'll mark off ev'ry day
'til your marxist reign is over,
'til, at last, you're dragged away
to feasts of friends and families,
to toast and repartee,
'til your High Noon we call our
Second Independence Day

To the cheering of the People,
to our deafening, “Hurray!”
to our swelling songs of Liberty,
to fireworks display,
to feasts of friends and families,
to toast and repartee,
come your High Noon we call our
Second Independence Day


Tick, Copyright © 2016 Papa Possum

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Hear the audio stream here: http://papapossum.blogspot.com/2016/0...


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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 3 months ago
    This would make a great song: fun words, catchy refrain, scans well. Did you have a tune in mind?

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 9 years, 3 months ago
    Outstanding. I just hope this time next year it's not a case of "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Until I read the above. I was already deciding whether I wanted to tell Eudaimonia "I love your optimism" or ask "Optimistic, aren't you?"
    Oops, well, what do you know? I went and wrote both versions anyway.
    I did enjoy the poem; but when the regime chairman leaves, I'll be very downhearted for already knowing that either the bought by virtually everybody Clinton Foundation crook for a female first president or Bolshevik Bernie is carrying on his anti-Constitutional carnage.
    Should that not be the case, I shall definitely be celebrating.
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  • Posted by $ Suzanne43 9 years, 3 months ago
    Super! Well, done. And I think that Obama will have to be dragged away. He will not go gently into the night.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 9 years, 3 months ago
    Hello Eudaimonia,
    Three cheers! Even if optimism is short lived it will be a welcome old friend.
    Regards,
    O.A.
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  • Posted by edweaver 9 years, 3 months ago
    Enjoy for sure. Nicely done! I think I will read this everyday so I may smile instead of frown.
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