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                 The Gravitas of Our Vice-Presidential Candidates

               In the end it was the worst speaker of the lot who received
               the most applause. People made no effort to follow him and
               merely roared approval at his every word…

                                       Doctor Zhivago, p. 36

Like high school boys behind the old school gym
In micturic dispute about distance and size
Two men exchange puerile scurrilities
A pair of puffed-up *****-mouthed posers

They know all about army guns ‘n’ stuff
Each hero manque’ stuffier than the other
About their ranks and tanks and thousand-yard-stares
And whose AR is the bigger one

Like high school boys behind the old school gym –
And why must we the people put up with them?