KRanium

(sonnet on White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove)

That White House instrument of roving eye,
That insider we know as "Bush's Brain,"
That king of dirty tricks, slave to the lie,
That puppet-master yanking Bush's chain,
That proud peddler of propagandist dreams
To pundit supplicants of poison pen
(Like Judith Miller drinking filthy streams
Spewed by the Pentagon), has struck again
In Treason to the nation. What of that?
Though diseased where the dirty Judy sat,
He'll dance and dally to avoid disaster,
While Cheney proves the puppet-master's master.
Can we surmise Karl Rove's career is dead
When he's so skillful giving George Bush head?

July 2005