Although we’re a nation of “haves,”
With a penchant for gadgets and new things,
Other nations who plot sometimes find it’s not
By halves that we usually do things.
by Ray Romine Saturday, October 27, 1951
Category: Politics
Dog Eat Dog
The agony the multitude must go through
Because of the avarice of a few!
Their greedy and grasping and blood-drenched claws
Can crack all decency: despoil our laws.
Reforms? There is nothing the many can do,
For trying too hard to be one of the few!
by Ray Romine Wednesday, October 16, 1946
Dog Eat Dog
The agony the multitude must go through
Because of the avarice of a few!
Their greedy and grasping and blood-drenched claws
Can crack all decency: despoil our laws.
Reforms? There is nothing the many can do,
For trying too hard to be one of the few!
by Ray Romine Wednesday, October 16, 1946
Disguise
“Washington, April 13–(AP)–President Truman said today the crime
problem is nationwide and not restricted to Kansas City … He said
it extends also to places like St. Louis and even to Washington” …News Item.
Crime isn’t crime, it seems, unless
It’s labeled fore and aft;
They have it, but in Washington,
They file it under GRAFT.
by Ray Romine Sunday, April 16, 1950
Cut Rut
The Senate’s economy boom
Will die in the bud, we assume,
Because of the row
Deciding just how
To cut what and how much from whom!
by Ray Romine Friday, June 15, 1951
Crystal Bawl
An arm-chair general is one
Who knows how it should have been done;
But when asked what he’d do
In the future, says, “Foo–
Do you think I’m a mind-reader, son?”
by Ray Romine Friday, December 1, 1950
Could They Maybe, Sort Of Sort?
Our Defense Program begins to loom
As something that really could boom
If the Congress and Harry
Would end thrust and parry
Over which rights go rightly with whom.
by Ray Romine Friday, April 6, 1951
Contradiction
This outcry the Reds have been gushin’–
How their plane we shot down without blushin’:
“It was merely capriceful!
All unarmed and peaceful.”
(It could hardly , therefore, have been Russian)
by Ray Romine Wednesday, September 6, 1950
Concerning the Present Situation
Acheson? Johnson? Whose throat
Shall we cut while we gleefully gloat
“He’s to blame! He’s the man!”
(When we’re playing at CAN,
There has to be, somewhere, a goat)
by Ray Romine Friday, September 8, 1950
Committee On American Inactivities
With all of the scaring,
One secret needs sharing:
Who drew the Red Herring
Across the Red Airing?
by Ray Romine Friday, April 6, 1951