Walk by the White Watergate: [Same-old-same-old lessons from history] Part II

Just when the water seems safe

Here came a strange new twosome.

Dancing in perfect harmony

Was Hilly-dee and Billy-dum.

They pranced about with deeds undone

And left behind words designed to numb.

“The time has come,” said Dee and Dum,

“To talk of many things.

Of China and of income tax,

Of councils and kings,

And what intercourse is or is not,

And does Monica have wings?”

“Starrs come out,” said Dum and Dee.

“But don’t you realize

The tales you’ve been told

Are only lobster lies

And exaggerations made up

By newspaper spies?

“We read your case, long gone Carpenter,

And we mean you no malice,

But it’s a right-wing conspiracy

That surrounds this palace.”

                          “Don’t tell the talking heads,

                          But I’ve been dating Alice.”

                                           “What’s that you say,” asked Hilly-dee

                                           “Would you risk us being jailed?”

                        “Now, never fret my faithful pet,

                        You know I’ve never failed.

                         I’ve blown smoke about adultery,

                        But I ne’er inhaled.”

Illustration: Novelty items of the Clintons

This poems was written 23 years after Part I and 22 years after this collection was originally put together, but this seemed the proper place to include it.