This post provides a follow-up to
"AMERICAN SATIRE (A Term of Endirement) #1"(Note that this first collection of poems gives helpful suggestions on how to SING these intriguing lyrics.)
make-believe 2016 (convention)
Vladimir's hope
anagrams (D-O-N-A-L-D etc.)
Hillary pilloried
impulse control
laying blame
borscht
Humpty-Dumpty (nursery rhyme)
bilateral anagrams
disingenuous Don
intelligence
revision of NAFTA
covfefe
Sharpie-gate
pardoning 'Sheriff Joe
''The Mooch'
conspiracy theories
shutdown
'It is what it is'
tribute to a Senator
tweetstorm
Twitter-ban
Georgia voters
fraudulent
CURRENT CONTENTS:
New Years' greeting
Freedom-from-T**** day
Electile dysfunction
Corrupt
Arizona 'fraudit'
Riotous anniversary
Disaster response
Legacy (free verse)
Dacha (Mar-a-Lago) -- (3 stanzas, a 'brief saga')
Authors' Note: U.S. Senator Hawley of Missouri played a major role in the constitutional events at the Washington Capitol on January 6, 2021, the day of the insurrection directed at the accession of Joe Biden to the presidency.
Authors' Note: In the United States, the Inauguration, a ceremony to mark the commencement of the four-year term of a new president takes place on the January 20th following the November election.
Author's Note: Rudy Giuliani, former federal prosecutor and mayor of New York City, served as a legal advisor to the forty-fifth US leader, coordinating court challenges designed to help overturn the results of the American presidential election of 2020.
Dysfunction as a general medical or social state is discussed by SheilaB, a prolific contributor to the online humor-poetry dictionary OEDILF. Among many verses on the topical specific entity, Giorgio’s take on erectile dysfunction can also be reviewed at that website, or HERE. Electile dysfunction has not been as popular a topic.
Authors' Note:
frumpery: dowdy or old-fashioned appearance or behaviour
trumpery: attractive articles of little value or worth
This verse was written in early January, 2021, after revelation of a recorded telephone conversation involving the chief election official of the American state of Georgia, as well as lawyers on both sides, in which suggestions were made to illegally revise the previously reported state's results in the recent presidential election of November 2020. The president, in the waning few weeks of his term, had seemed consumed by concern about poorly specified fraud that might have contributed to his loss of Electoral College votes in closely contested states.
Authors' Note:
Authors' Note: If you were going to sing a limerick, this modified 6-line verse (a 'limerrhoid'?) would be a particularly good one to sing to the tune of Gershwin's 'Anniversary Song'. Readers are invited to check out the possibilities for singing limerick verses with a variety of tunes on a blogpost on "Edifying Nonsense". Click HERE.
PROLONGATION
The carnage continues as we move into the next term in US politics! Owing to intense demand for more verses of this type, we have worked hard to accommodate your wishes; in fact, there are now quite a few followup verses, concocted after the original four "Endirement" posts, in a group that we have named "Prolongation"! So, you can view another group of these gut- and heart- wrenching poems by clicking this link !
GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR WEB-EXPLORERS:
To resume your review of the sequence of daily titillations on our related blog "Daily Illustrated Nonsense", click HERE. Once you arrive, you can select your time frame of interest from the calendar-based listings at the bottom of the page, and check the daily offerings for any month from the start of 2020 until July 2025. As of July 20, 2025, there are 2,000 unique entries available on the daily blog, displaying individual poems (often illustrated) and wordplay, but also with some photo-collages and parody song-lyrics.
Most of these key elements of our work are assembled here on "Edifying Nonsense" in topic-based collections.
The "Daily" format, a formidable mix of genres has the advantage of including song-lyrics, videos and other material that are not shown here on this topic-based blog.
