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‘Fartgates: Of Biden and Kerry’ and Other Poetry by Daniel Rancio

December 13, 2023
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Fartgates: Of Biden and Kerry

That climate crap (no pun intended)
They’re pushing is so much projection,
A bellywash that’s open-ended
From an open-ended nether-section.
 
The gasbags blather on and let ’er
Rip—long, loud, and hard to ignore,
And it’s their odor to the letter,
Alas, they’ve dealt us evermore.

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Cozy with Chicoms

Chicoms: Chinese communists

Our businesses have made a choice—
__That we don’t get to choose.
Cozy with Chicoms, with whom they’ve
__Grown easy to confuse,
 
Their business has become to screw us
__With any convenient ruse
They might exploit to keep us toiling
__And spending for to lose.
 
Could be, there’s never been much choice
__And we’re just coming to.
Some crowd-defunding might just show
__They’ve got theirs coming too.

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Daniel Rancio is an American poet and educator.

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  1. Cheryl Corey says:
    2 years ago

    I got a good laugh from ” open-ended nether-section”.
    How ironic that Kerry couldn’t contain his own gas while lecturing the rest of the world.

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  2. Joseph S. Salemi says:
    2 years ago

    These are really cute and effective squibs (in the sense of being short, clipped, and firecracker-like). The poem on Biden and Kerry — two politicians who would stink whether they had intestinal problems or not — is a welcome surprise, since it shows that scatology has a place in classical poetry, regardless of what our prissy types believe.

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