Fine Gold

(on Senator Russell Feingold's resolution
to censure Bush, March 13, 2006)

As Abdiel, lone voice in Satan's throng,
Dared in a flame of zeal severe upbraid
The devil and his rebel host, whose wrong
Presaged the fall of Man in Eden's raid,

So Russell Feingold was the only one
Among the senators to take a stand.
None seconded in that assembly, none,
His censure motion of a despot damned.

They trembled to rein in the reign of rape,
Puppets obeisant to corporate ties,
Who peddle in prostration, sponge and scrape
To favored sons of the Father of Lies.

Paul Wellstone, had he not already been
Bumped off, would surely have thrown in his lot,
But now, in scene obsequious, obscene,
The Senate chamber's Satan's chamberpot.

March 2006