Comic © John Taylor II

 

Eulogy for a Dick

Hey, Dick Cheney

You used to be Darth Vader
with your very own Death Star
You used to be the Black Prince
laying waste to the Middle East
You used to be Leatherface
taking a chainsaw to the Constitution

But of late, even pimply-faced creeps like Musk
were more fearsome
You seemed like a throwback
to an age of decorum
Even your daughter pushed you around
It was fitting you died on an Election Day
where your party got clobbered

How did it feel to be without a throne?
How did it feel to be so insignificant?

Now that you’re dead, you Cheney you
nobody cares much either way

Now that you’re dead, you Cheney you
they did the expected NY Times obit
then conveniently forgot you

Now that you’re dead, Dick Cheney
you hardly merit a poem

 

John Roche lives in Placitas, NM, helping run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and edit Poetry Playhouse Publications. Along with editing the five-volume Poets Speak series, his poetry books include On Conesus, Topicalities, Road Ghosts, The Joe Poems, Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet, and the latest, Tubbables.

John “Hoss” Taylor Jr. is a cartoonist from Hebron, Maryland. He graduated from Salisbury University with a bachelor’s degree in art. His art and comics work has been published in various literary magazines (both in print and digitally). Hoss can be found at home with his wife Caitlin, and their daughter Sophia.