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Gorsuch Plays

4/23/2017

 

When credibility declines
    What rises in its place?
A change occurs, but by what signs
    Falls grace into disgrace?

It does not take a putrid stench
    But merely innuendo
First to suggest, if not to clench,
    Ere rising to crescendo,

That something rancid, something foul’s
    Befallen reputation,
A slight corruption in the bowels
    As leads to complication.

Such happened to the highest court
    A country ever knew,
As tremulous the pianofort
    From pianissimo grew,

Until was heard a raucous sound
    With clangs and bangs and thuds,
No harmonies—but # # #!— 
    As fortes flew in floods.

’Twas wild abandon! as though it
    Were hammered by a monkey,
Because upon that bench did sit
    Pretender and a flunky.

Justice a lovely concert was
    But now the orchestra
Lapses to chaos: Gorsuch plays
    Contemptuous of the law.

Such happens when you seat a louche— 
    Once august and revered
The Court succumbs to scaramouche,
    Reputation impaired.

Could even military loss
    Be half so fraught as this?
A reputation so to toss,
    In the analysis,

As though it so much ballast were,
    A thing to be discarded— 
But, came the day, change did occur,
    Spoilt what should have been guarded.

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