Trumped: For Contest May 7
ATTENTION READERS:
In the interests of full disclosure, our recent sightings of Humpty-Dumpty were reported on social media. In addition, the most reliable eyewitness happened to be an illegal alien, somewhere in the South. We cannot divulge that alien's exact location, for obvious reasons, and for professional ethics. So here:
When Britannia ruled the waves
And the Americans in league trumped the Braves
Agent Humpty-Dumpty was schooled
In Divide-and-Conquer rules
Then came 1776 and 1789
Humpty-Dumpty was falling behind
Fast forward to a more recent time
Think of the year 1989
Humpty had a tremendous, spudendous fall
Do you recall the Berlin Wall came falling down?
Just like that, Humpty-Dumpty was almost done
Reporters visited China’s Great Wall
Where the Chinese had trumped the Great Mongol
Humpty-Dumpty was not investing there
Not his hand, or finger, or trademark absent hair
It seemed our world would keep just China's historic wall!
Then Hilary was thumped in recent days, in the glorious year 2017
Humpty was spied, by an illegal alien
Near Mexico, but on this side of the Rio Grande
Raising capital under an undisclosed "Humpety-Trumpety" brand:
For a wall to keep out the hordes yet again!
We have nothing against capital, profit and gain
(No more LOSS just PROFIT at labor's cost! Unless you want a Great Depression again?)
But our Humpty has never read Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall,"
When Nature itself sends fence and wall tumbling down
Each springtime: dovetailing the work of hunters, spring, and Fall
He asked: "What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offense," wrote the Poet
Some living poets may join in the fray,
To boldly declare, nay, to write in a polite way -
"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."
Edited for Contest on April 24, 2017.
Copyright © Anil Deo | Year Posted 2017
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