Another Terrible Idea in Free Verse

The attacks are inevitable

and insure its survival

whatever the paperwork shows

whatever the paperwork shows.

 

Below all the mudslinging lies a real divide

We’re falling behind

whatever the paperwork shows

whatever the paperwork shows.

 

Half-truths and weak arguments

whatever the paperwork shows

what the numbers show

whatever the paperwork shows.

Four Pinocchios.

 

(All phrases in the above doggerel are taken directly from a Fareed Zakaria article and remixed, mostly as an in-joke with a former editor of mine.  Continue walking, citizen.  There’s nothing to see here.)