By David S. Pointer

Like customers continuing to hold,

We never get any unautomated answers

To our important economic questions.

As each President is presented

With a customized set of signature sentences

To present a pacified public preoccupied

With everything from Winnie the Pooh to Internet porn

As the highly elevated

economically insane

Continue to inhabit

Love’s lifelikeness

Knowing collegiality

Is a difficult contagion to detect,

And what average consumer

Can positively identify

The clear ever-increasing

kettle-cooked contaminants of commerce

Made by modern chemists,

Or that which is packaged

To be as appealing as

The double scarlet

Daylily of a dream?

W and deceit

High crimes and hoopla

Downing Street Memo