The Fall Of America Poem by Herbert Nehrlich

The Fall Of America

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McCain, McCain, you are running in vain!
And you are in this national drama,
how hillariously (!) funny and a little insane,
cheer the pigmented warrior Obama.
In the background old Bill, who is over the hill
lusts to get a new student like 'winsky,
with a Cuban cigar and a muffin to fill
like a film by director Klaus Kinski.

And I say, take the lot and fly up to the moon
blast the gangsters into smithereens,
we don't need here on earth, a demented baboon
nor a humper who's searching for queens.
Let the first who has cast his own spell on the land
be the chief and commander for all
it won't matter a bit as we do understand
very soon this great country will fall.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Joseph Daly 05 June 2008

This is hilarious (the Klaus Kinski rhyme is great) . And yet there is a sort of arrmageddon feel to it with the portrayal of the USA as Babylon. I love the use of rhyme in this Herbert and the seriousness of the poem is ambiguous. But, to recall Monty Python: , ''The ambiguity is in the box'

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Allan James Saywell 05 June 2008

Yes Herbert dear friend what hope for this country if they cant even keep a poets poetry in a safety deposit box On a poetry site so named Poem Hunter where the poet has to fall back on a fading memory to re-write his said lost works AJS

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