Elective Selections
(after the sonnet style of Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin)

Two non-entities campaigning:
Half-black woman; Orange man.
Polls say neither one is gaining.
Looks like no one has a plan.
How to sell what’s not appealing?
Seems like Ennui’s congealing.
From both mouths some noise escapes,
one like monkeys, one like apes,
neither “Presidential” sounding,
not unless one values fraud,
like “religion,” straight from “god.”
Promise to give “Them” a pounding.
Zionists demand a plan.
Just make war upon Iran.