Through Year Two Oh Two Five we are now trudging.

A shaky future threatens, and our nation

Towards a fascist state seems to be nudging.

Good Sense and Decency are on vacation,

With Propaganda rife, while fact-check fudging

Enables misbegotten peroration

Incitement to a reputation-smudging

Sedition with a strident ululation

That tarnishes our once-proud home’s escutcheon

And sparks a mob unto its satiation.

Goodbye to Smooth Transition. The curmudgeon

Lame Duck-In-Chief now past all expiation

Somehow yet rules. Most lands find this disgusting.

And Loyalists with their ingratiation

Betray us every day. Yes, this is judging.

Let all who read now note my admiration

For Tricky Dick’s persuaders, though it’s grudging.

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Historical note: Senators Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott, and House Minority Leader John Rhodes, met then-president Richard Nixon in the Oval Office on August 7, 1974 and persuaded him to resign.