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Sunday, May 29, 2011

FRAME GAME: THE STRANGE LOGIC OF AMERICAN POLITICS

by Jon Wesick


Bailout, bailout, bo-ale out
Banana-fana, too big to fail out
Fee-fi-mo- mail out
Bailout!

Crack down, smack down. Don’t back down!
Banana-fana, fo-fact down
Fee-fi-mo- mack down
Crack down!

Congress, Congress, bo-bongress
Lobby, lobby, bo-bobby
Fee-fi-mo-mobby
Lobby!

Spin it, spin it, bo-bin it
Banana fana, fo-fin it
Fee-fi-mo-minute
Spin it!

Consumer, consumer, bo-boomer
Protection, protection, bo-brection
Banana-fana-fo-frection
Fee-fi-mo-rection
Deception!

Taxes, taxes, bo-baxes
Banana-fana, fo-faxes
Fee-fi-mo
Maxes taxes!

Crack down, smack dow, bo-back down!
Banana-fana, fo-fact down
Fee-fi-mo- mack down
Back down!

Winner, winner, who’s the winner
Bankers, bankers, bo-ankers
Banana-fana-fo-fankers
Fee-fi-mo-minner
The bankers are the winners!


Host of the Gelato Poetry Series, instigator of the San Diego Poetry Un-Slam, and an editor of the San Diego Poetry Annual, Jon Wesick has published over two hundred poems in journals such as the The New Verse News, New Orphic Review, Pearl, Pudding, and Slipstream. He has also published forty short stories. Jon has a Ph.D. in physics and is a longtime student of Buddhism and the martial arts. One of his poems won second place in the 2007 African American Writers and Artists contest.
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