Roll Call
Bush beams with brightened countenance
On the start-up entrepreneur.
Apparently you're the favored one,
Our economy to stir:
A seeming beneficiary
Of this tax-cutting president.
So hail the men of enterprise
Who set this precedent:
There's Paul Revere the silversmith,
Paul Bunyan chopping wood,
Frontiersman Daniel Boone at large,
Johnny Appleseed of fruit-bearing wood.
But a different modern archetype
Bush's rhetoric tends to evoke:
He sidles beside you in Washington Square
And whispers "smoke, smoke, smoke".
April 7, 2001