Let it be beg, borrow, or steal,
What matters is getting it still,
Not how the Prize is won,
The truth is I’ve got one,
Nor who deserves, who not,
Favourite I’m so hot--
Me a champion maker of deal.
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Happenings | 29.01.2026 | humour, political, USA, limerick
Note: Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gives her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump. A US official says: the Prez intends to keep the medal. What next? Auction of the Nobel?
MACHADO GIVES GIFT
TO TRUMP WHO IS KNOWN FOR GRIFT
LEAVING US ALL MIFFED
need not be conspiracy
nor parade of lunacy
or ignore bear
and fold in despair
putin put in prison
with warlords clinton bush
obama trump biden
to gehenna all push
this coincidence
though not providence
consequences still apply
when russians die
iranian friends fry
hezballah hamas fail
gazans who live do so in hell
created by modern israel
who is loved by corina machado
asking hatchet for maduro machado
and gives aid to our good saint zel
so progressives pink washed
don't want you be squashed
but let this sink in
as advocate violence
and boost cause silence
merrikka israel win
time after time again
for sake of all love god
don't be a brain clod
while ukraine remains cannon fod
And then for years
It was all he could do
To drink and read Machado.
While poems got drunk
Before breakfast,
And she lay unkissed,
Dom Antonio gave blood
From both of his wrists,
Then closed his bag,
Bowed with care,
And left him injected
With a certain alertness
Which for the time being
Kept him aware.
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