who is John Gault?

or is it John Gaul?

whatever  Anne Rand (Ann?)

is one of our heroes

we’re going to the movie

the book is too long

and it has big words

but we know no gays

or socialists or Moslams

will be there

we’ll be watching for them

all six of us

this will be our answer

to all those intellec…intelectuals

we have our authors too

we just can’t read them

but we don’t have to

cause we have our candidates

did you know Tom Salmon

is an Objectionist?

and so is Sarah Palin

that’s why she writes

on her hands

you wait til next year

we’re going to take over

then it’ll be your turn to ask

who is John Gaalt?

he’s going to the White House

as in White

we can spell that

and after we take over

nobody will have to spell anyway

why bother spelling

when you can make a sign?

Peter Buknatski

Montpelier, Vt.

(AND–Today is a Bad anniversary day.  43 years ago, in Memphis, they murdered Martin Luther King.

When you remember the courage and eloquence of that man, and what he stood for, the people I’m talking about above don’t seem very amusing after all.)