How far gone?
While touring the JFK Library at UMass
I snapped a pic of President Kennedy, long past.
Now watching news of new administration yesterday
I detect ’tween then and now a stark contrast.
And so on this cold and cloudy wintry day
I revise an old show tune to elephants and ass:
A song, to be sung to the tune of “Camelot”,
as sung by Richard Harris in the 1967 movie of the same name:
A law was made a distant moon ago here:
Civil War rebellions must not burn too hot,
and there’s a legal limit to the rebels here
in America, a lot.
Yes, here in Jack Smith’s case we caught a glimpse;
his prosecutor’s case reveals a lot
in evidence of the trumpy’s MAGApimps here
in Chutkan’s Court: a lot.
We see the wheat cast out from chaff here
as official duties fade behind a MAGA plot
‘cuz a President has no business breaking laws here
with Elon’s musky nazi plot.
Supremes had made an order in their Court here:
As Roberts’ magic likewise had begot:
Immunity’s woven from whole cloth here
in Supreme Court, a lot.
So go ask We the People to make a list here
to separate traitors’ acts from those that are not
Cuz there’s legal limit to trump’s insurrection here
in our Democracy, a lot.
But Jack got way-laid in his task here
of culling private acts from those that are not
depending on who was called to smear
our Rule of Law, in Jan6 riots, so hot.
No President ought our Constitution smear
whether in private or official, he should not!
but since Jack did spell it out so clear here
We must grab the Justice case he brought:
One hundred eighty special pages there,
of treason’s acts on January 6th, so hot!
Insurrectionary gangs from far and near
having no official duties, so they fought!
Against our Capitol and DC police here
Where violence and killing ought be not
Cuz a Law was made a distant moon ago here
in 14th Amendment, section 3, or so we thought!
