Dream Song 23: The Lay of Ike

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Dream Song 23: The Lay of Ike by John Berryman

 This is the lay of Ike.
Here's to the glory of the Grewt White-”awk-”
who has been running-”er-”er-”things in recent-”ech-”
in the United-”If your screen is black,
ladies & gentlemen, we-”I like-”
at the Point he was already terrific-”sick

to a second term, having done no wrong-”
no right-”no · right-”having let the Army-”bang-”
defend itself from Joe, let venom' Strauss
bile Oppenheimer out of use-”use Robb,
who'll later fend for Goldfine-”Breaking no laws,
he lay in the White House-”sob!!-”

who never understood his own strategy-”whee-”
so Monty's memoirs-”nor any strategy,
wanting the ball bulled thro' all parts of the line
at once-”proving, by his refusal to take Berlin,
he misread even Clauswitz-”wide empty grin
that never lost a vote (O Adlai mine).

Form: Berryman Stanzas

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