The Charge of the Light Worker
—apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
Half a bill, half a bill,
Hundreds of billions,
To the fiscal cliff of Debt—
Now sixteen trillion.
“Forward!” Light Worker said,
“Charge what we want!” he said
On the fiscal cliff of Debt,
Now sixteen trillion.
“Forward!” Light Worker said
“Though we’re deeply in the red,
I’m doing what I said
When I thrilled millions:
The Treasury my “stash,”
Green energy plans rash,
Billions in crony cash,
Off the fiscal cliff of Debt,
Now sixteen trillion.”
“Regulate industry,
Depress the economy,
Create false scarcity,
Cut back oil drilling.
Let entitlements swell;
Make our defense a shell;
Into the jaws of Debt—
How great? no one can tell—
Now sixteen trillion.”
Flush’d down fed’ral programs,
Flush’d down his healthcare scam,
Threat’ning with the taxman
Any who would protest
His road to ruin.
Heedless and unafraid,
The press acting to aid
Dissimulation
His plans had long been laid
The land to do in;
The bill came back much more
Than sixteen trillion.
“Regulate industry,
Depress the economy,
Create false scarcity,
Cut back oil drilling.
Let entitlements swell—”
That’s how a nation fell,
Freedoms tossed down a well,
Into a maw of Debt
How great, no one can tell
All we know is that it’s
Now sixteen trillion.
Would we were as we were
Ere half the land preferred
Public trough swilling.
What a profound error
To let the Light Worker
Squander our trillions!
This is one of your best ever.
Excellent Buzz!
Once more into the breach dear friends. (to mix English lit metaphors)
We’ll have to wall up the fiscal gap with the career’s politicians who refuse to heed to sanity.
This is just fantastic buzz! ++++
– The Highwayman or Lochinvar.
You’re scaring me!
Do you remember The Gallows Tree or A Meeting?
Thus is just chilling. I got real goosebumps.
Due to my dislike of Tennyson, I love this! Much better than the original!
Bravo!
Excellent, as usual, Buzz!
Every time I read one of your “works” Buzz, I keep thinking “it can’t get much better than this” and then you go and top yourself!
Just really superb. Thanks!
Canons to the right, Canons to the left.
We need a verse about the Lightworker in the valley of Evil Religionists.
Obama’s Presidency — the Crimea of the century.
IIRC, the Lightworker’s men rode ho’s into battle.
/Just pointing out that the metaphors boggle the imagination
In all fairness, the red-tab who ordered the original Charge was probably just as detached, just as uncaring, just as elitist.
Look at Barack. Look at Michelle. Neither knows squat about what life is like, growing up in a hard-scrabble Mississippi Delta town.
I don’t think either cares.
Holes at the knees of bluejeans are signs of affluence.
Oh, wow.
Got me right worked up it did, reciting this in front of the monitor……… think I actually broke this chair….ô_o……..