Elegy for Rush Limbaugh

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.

—Rush Limbaugh

 

Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up

and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.

—Bertolt Brecht

 

Once, as a rib-thin female mutt was trailed by a pack

of suitors, my lover said, Why do some dogs in heat

get followed and some don’t?

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