General Electric's electronic ex-pitchman is dead
some people want to put him on money
carve his head on Mt Rushmore - rate him with Lincoln.

Ronald compulsively kibitzed in tasteless jest
Reagan was cruel to his children,
thought storm troopers were victims of Nazism.

Central American death squads could sing:
What a friend we have in Ronnie.

His apotheosis is transcendent triumph
to meretricious mediocrity and who knows,
someday a blood lusting Christian moron
may follow in his footsteps.

Really, I'm not exaggerating.

© 2004 Stew Albert