The Ominous Omnibus Poem by Bryan Taplits

They hushed their voice
Wondered, 'What's the fuss?
For both Democrats and
Republicans agreed,
The stentorian tones of both betrayed.
Indignant rage-
Onlookers wondered who to believe-
Since, manifestly, it was a fight of 'Them against us! '
The Senators all crowed and cackled (as they layed their egg)
And the Omnibus mesmerized with its hypnotic covers,
With earmarks here and earmarks there
It was like 'A Mastodon of multi-hued colors.'
The one thing forgotten by these 'moral' men
With their mammoth bill of propitiated and varied favors,
Was the treachery practiced by that Washington crowd
And their perfidy opposed by taxpayers.
One thing more added to this grift-
Another brick, added to that wall where all virtue was caving,
Yes, the taxpayers would be swinging from that fabled hook-
But it was our future in reality that would be paying.
So they went all away for the holiday season
Pleased and proud at this historic event,
Puffing up then dressing down all the mountebanks and prigs in town-
Each one perceiving that these last spendthrift days-
Were-indeed-well spent.