A Lie

(on Bush's appointment of Harriet Miers to the U.S. Supreme Court)

To further jeer at justice, Bush appoints
A loyal lawyer larding praise on him:
"Most brilliant man I've ever met," she says,
Her hero hailed in hagiographic hymn.
Now in the highest court of this fair land
Where lays the mangy bird its rotten eggs
(That eagle-ostrich-magpie-bantam-crow),
Here Mercy fruitlessly a hearing begs.
To seal the sin her predecessors bore
(Selection's shameful sin five years ago),
Harriet Miers lips are licking her lord's lap
To lavish one more constitutional blow.
So strength shall shelter the shame of the weak,
Infesting fealty of incestuous clique.

October 2005