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The “John Roberts hates women and blacks, you know poem” poem

for Barbara Boxer and Teddy Kennedy

John Roberts hates women and blacks,

you know, his federalist finery adorning

Jim Crow’s bones—their hollow rattle

yielding the hideous song of separate

     but equal;

Not to mention —

the pearl string around his wife’s throat

the bony fingers of Eisenhower’s gin-

soaked America—a conservative Eden

of homebaked breads and violent hate,

     Paradise regained…*

8 Replies to “The “John Roberts hates women and blacks, you know poem” poem”

  1. Salt Lick says:

    You’re channeling Gwendolyn Brooks?

  2. Jeff Goldstein says:

    I sometimes like to express my anti-authoritarianism in dainty verse.

  3. Sean M. says:

    “It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I know would overturn Roe v. Wade and return our country to the days of the 1950s.” –Dianne Feinstein

    Aw, heck Dianne.  What does a decade or two matter when you’re discussing Supreme Court decisions?  Anyway, it’s not like she’s on the Judiciary Commit…Oh, crap.

  4. B Moe says:

    Isn’t that kind of like a litmus test, what she is talking about right there?

  5. T Marcell says:

    “Parasie Regained”, sure, quality Milty reference, but as far as parody poesy, you can’t beat

    “Thrombosis is a cruel mistress”

  6. T Marcell says:

    yeah, yeah, sorry, “Paradise”…or Parasie, it’s a Coleridge reference!

    Anyway, scroll down for the parody-immune, Even In Michigan

  7. Veeshir says:

    Hey, you stole that from the Washington Post. No hat tip?

  8. T Marcell says:

    Veeshir,

    No hat tip for the Post, however, yes, I should have rightfully acknowledged the talented Mr. Lileks

    After all the bleats he’s given me, too, I’m such a selfish bastard sometimes, sorry, jim.

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