For A Lump Of Coal

Bush, the ecologist,
Acting like a proctologist,
Is sticking it to them with glee.
Most any optometrist
Or opthalmologist
Would see and then quickly agree.

To allow coal pollution
For a mere contirbution,
Shows a lack of concern for the lives
Of the miners who gave him
The five votes that saved him
From a job packing chutes for skydives.

West Virginia's miners,
Those George Bush enshriners,
Aided of course by Judge Thomas,
Were looking for work
When along came a smirk
With what sounded to them like a promise.

But midst mine owner revels
He proposed coal-dust levels
That would bring them significant wealth,
But more black-lung disease
For his brave devotees
Whose votes bought them jobs but not health.

There's a moral of course:
Please consider the source
And who is he really sweet-talking?
Will the rules he will loosen,
That sound so seducin',
Fill your lungs and/or his Christmas stocking?

Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
8/10/04