Dumpty by John Lithgow

Author:John Lithgow [Lithgow, John]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Published: 2019-10-21T16:00:00+00:00

In 2017, ELLIOTT B. BROIDY was deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee. He resigned in April 2018 after it was reported that he had paid a former Playboy Playmate $1.6 million to cover up their affair.

THE WALRUS AND THE KLEPTOCRAT

(AFTER LEWIS CARROLL)

The streets all glowed with autumn light

Beyond the palace door.

Inside, the glittering chandeliers

Lit up the marble floor.

The Walrus and the Kleptocrat

Plumbed the ways of war.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said,

“To follow different courses;

To talk of promises forsworn,

Of schisms and divorces.

We’re scrapping the pact that keeps in check

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces.”

The Kleptocrat, that wily cat,

Suppressed a furtive leer.

“Oh, no!” he cried, and wiped away

A crocodilian tear.

“The INF has kept us safe

For lo, this many a year!”

In fact, he’d never backed the pact

Nor followed its decrees,

But had built a secret missile force

With surreptitious ease,

Enough to bring the NATO alliance

Trembling to its knees.

The Kleptocrat eyed his oblivious prey

With the gaze of a snake in the grass.

The Walrus thought he’d skunked his foe

But had given him a pass,

Unwittingly planting a servile kiss

On the Kleptocrat’s rosy ass.

A year before, another scene

Was every bit as hinky:

A meeting of two heads of state

At a summit in Helsinki,

Where the Kleptocrat wrapped the Walrus’s boss

Around his little pinkie.

The shadows crept across Red Square,

The sky began to redden.

The Walrus snuggled in his bed,

His limbs were limp and leaden.

He smiled at how his day had gone,

The global order he’d redrawn.

He dreamed at last of a golden dawn

Of nuclear Armageddon.

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