Don’t Cry For Me Appalachia! (Aka) Maria, I’ve Just Met A Girl Known As Maria Poem by Joe Rosochacki

South Carolina’s Governor went missing for awhile.
Mark Sanford, no relationship to Fred G. Sanford of the TV program Sanford and Son,
Went hiking far from the political and social webs in style.
Through forest, hill and dale,
He turned off his cell phone,
-and according to early statements he went to the Appalachian Trail amid Appalachia.
And when it was all done,
He ‘hiked’ in to Buenos Aires, he must’ve liked to ‘good air’ or ‘fresh winds’.
Did he go for a clandestine meeting of SAFTA?
(South American Free Trade Agreement)
But he would account for many ill-deeds some bordering on sins.
Before long, his personal life would be brought forth,
A production of “Evita” on Broadway of sorts.
Sanford took a break from his estranged wife and children,
Even though that last Sunday, June 21st, was Father’s Day,
He did not spend it with his kids because he went far away.
He chided Bill Clinton, after he was caught having an affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Today his rather racy emails where published in the news, -
-to his ‘two to tango’ lover.
What’s up with these religious icons and politicians?
Why they risk all, their family, their reputation, their credibility?
It’s insane, -why bother?
I guess that they are children and their Disney World is in fact the world.
“It’s a Small World After All”.
But how do these politicians get all the money for affairs?
If they are supposedly paid by the tax-payer then the citizens have the right to know.
It will continue, for power is the great aphrodisiac said Henry Kissinger.
Different place-different time it’s all the same in different issues.
Her name is Maria,
-the lady that he met in Argentina.
According to his e-mail, she was a Latino ‘dish’.
By the way did Sanford speak “Spanglish’?
Now, there is no conclusion to the “Evita” meets “West Side Story” story.
In any event the Republicans got a black eye in their conservative family values.

(6-25-09)