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The Ballad of Old White

5/31/2017

 

Old White was feeling anxious
    Because Bill Clinton had
Sex when he felt rambunctious
    But not like any cad:

He did it with an intern
    Whom he had access to— 
Enough to make White’s skin turn
    An even paler hue— 

Because he held great power,
    “He had more chance than I”
Old White was seen to lower,
    “Who am a poor Small Fry.”

And so forever after
    Old White raised up his fist,
Slamming it down—no laughter
    To moderate his gist:

“Therefore I hate that woman
    Who stood fast by her man,
A loathing grown uncommon:
    I loathe because I can.”

He held his grudge forever
    When all the world forgot
The scandal and forgave her
    But Old White he did not.

When she be dead and buried
    Old White yet will exhume
His own lust which miscarried
    To spit upon her tomb.

“That woman! Oh, that woman!”
    Old White was heard to say,
But Time’s floods kept a comin‘
    And washed Old White away.

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