Tea Parties

Back in the days when America was bein' born

a bunch of bogus Indians made a pact that they had sworn

to bale a batch of English tea

into Boston harbor, so's they could be tax-free.

The stuff belonged to Georgee the Third, 

whose policies weren't hardly worth a turd.

Now two hundred thirty-six years beyond that historic part-ee

fed-up taxpayers gathered in many a town and big cit-ee.

The Fox was journalistically heretical, 

while CNN was bein' skeptical,

but sure as you're born something was a brewin'

'cause of what the tax-fueled deficit would soon be doin.'

Now popular movements are quite a curiosit-ee,

and if they're on the left they're considered cool and p-cee.

But if they're on the right their greeted with disdain

by the Times and the Post and the talking heads who love to claim

that popular protest should be all about

cannabis, free lunch and coming out. 

But time will tell if this zombie and fanny-freddie bailout deficit

will fix the problem or make a worser mess of it.

We shall see what we shall see,

between me and thee and the tea part-ee.

Carey Rowland, author of  Glass half-Full