Gordon Day

Gordon Day lives and writes in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England, and author

of the chapbooks Suzy Wanted to Leave the Party and Psychoscaping. More

work at http://www.livevil.com/yours/poets/gday.html.

REPUBLICAN

When the new President's told

his office was made oval

after a bomb called fat man

he stops fussing over his shape

in the mirror, throws a party

for everyone who's anyone

goes down on his knees and prays:

Please God, watch over the ladies

unbecoming of the punch bowl,

its fruit moves His and Hers beds together.

Temptation is not why are clients

from the East are here

but you know how the showgirls behave

who can be swapped for a deal to buy

helicopter gunships, if you please God

turn a blind eye.

DEMOCRAT

When the new President's told

his office was named oval after a hole

in a migrant's shoe, he throws a party

for everyone, doesn't stay sober for

the-phone-call: Mr President:

the boy said no to meal of hamburgers-

and who wouldn't in this hot weather-

just relaxed in sleeveless shirt

ready for the injection

nice men and women came to witness

quietely in a row. The boy,

like a guest from a party,

drifted to a place of his choosing.

Gordon Day