Shakespeare Revisited

 

"Something's rotten in the State of Denmark," Shakespeare said...

Then, in just a few short acts, the whole damn cast is dead.

As our current tragedy unfolds - the play undone -

I'm afraid our State will end up like that other one.

Men and women merely players; all the world a stage.

Our mad king's soliloquies are on his Twitter page.

Something isn't only rotten here...  It stinks like hell.

Alas for our democracy.  I thought I knew it well.

Methinks I doth smell a rat.  Its name is Donald Trump;

An Othello with the intellect of Forrest Gump.

In this comic tragedy we're in, perhaps it's best

If a flight of federal agents sing him to his rest.

"A Rose By Any Other Name..."

If a rose by any other name still smells as sweet,

With the Senate's CIA reporting now complete,

Techniques of Enhanced Interrogation has the same

Stink as torture... Never mind its legal sounding name.

CIA's attempts to shield their countrymen from harm

Went a whole lot further than a simple twisted arm.

EITs, where Everyone Is Targeted for it,

Stinks of desperation (which can smell a lot like shit.)

I know agents only sought to serve the greater good

When they questioned prisoners in handcuffs and a hood.

They forgot, when torturing the people we oppose,

You can't roll in shit and come up smelling like a rose.