LIMBAUGHRICK

by Frank Osen

"Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my country. To be watching all of this, to be treated like this, to have our common sense and intelligence insulted the way it's being insulted? It just makes me ashamed. Seriously, man."  --Rush Limbaugh, February 21, 2013

Image source: TIME Magazine (January 23, 1995 cover)

Rush Limbaugh has lately been grievin,’
And though I don’t think he’ll be leavin,’
It’s still cause for elation,
He’s ashamed of our nation.
Now he and the nation are even.


Frank Osen has won the Able Muse Book Award and his first book, Virtue, Big as Sin, will be published this Spring by Able Muse press.  He has also won the Best American Poetry series poem award.

FIRST LINE OF A LIMERICK FOLLOWED BY FOUR LINES OF SILENCE

by J.R. Solonche

There once was a Willard Mitt Romney
(silence)
(silence)
(silence)
(silence).

J.R. Solonche is co-author (with wife Joan Siegel) of Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter (Grayson Books). His poems have appeared in many magazines, journals, and anthologies since the 1970s. He teaches at SUNY Orange in Middletown, New York.