Hillary Clinton, will you please go now!

Flip Side: With apologies to Dr. Seuss and Maureen Dowd.


Hillary Clinton will you please go now!
The time has come.
The time has come.
The time is now.
Just go.
Go.
Go!
I don't care how.
Hillary Clinton please go away!
Take a gas tax holiday
In your Zumble-Zay.
You can go by Troopergate.
You can go obliterate.
You can go triangulate.
Please, Hillary, accept your fate. Return to the Empire State.
Please go.
Please.
I don't care how.
Go on a bucking bronc.
Go as a policy wonk.
Go as a gun totin' gal.
Go as the working man's pal.
Go as a bowler and a drinker
Go as a brawler and a stinker
I don't care
If you
Go in a Whitewater canoe.
Just go, go, GO!
Please do, do, do, DO!
You can go by Giraffe
You can go by calf
Take your artificial laugh
And your spontaneity staff
I don't care.
Go with Paula
Go with Monica
Go with Gennifer with a G
Take anyone, as long as you flee.
Hillary Clinton
Don't you know
The time has come
To go, go, GO!
You can go on
A flying mouse
You can go on
On a spruce grouse
You can dump the louse
And go an aggrieved spouse
Just leave our house
You can go by tryke
Or maybe hitch hike
If you like
You can go to Germany and proclaim the fourth Reich.
I don't care how.
Hillary Clinton
Will you please
GO NOW!
You can go in a pastry cart
Rejoin the board of Wal-Mart
Reaffirm your oddities
And trade commodities
Just depart.
Go on an anti-flag burning crusade.
Raise tariffs and restrain trade.
But GO, GO, GO.
End this charade.
Please Hillary!
Feel our pain.
Don't remain.
Get on your way!
This very day.
Take you Rose billing file.
Take your practiced smile.
Take your Bosnian Snipers.
Take your campaign vipers.
You can go by Travelgate
... or private jet.
I don't care how you go.
Just get!
Hillary Clinton!
I don't care how.
Hillary Clinton
Will you please
GO NOW!
I said
GO
And
GO
I prayed ...
The time had come
But ...
Hillary STAYED.


About the Author

Steve Clifford writes humor for Crosscut. He is the author of the recently published political satire, Fools and Knaves. In his unhumorous life, he was CEO of King Broadcasting and once played a role in saving New York City from bankruptcy.

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Comments:

Posted Sun, May 11, 9:06 p.m. Inappropriate

Not Clifford again!: Clifford is suppose to write with humor
but it turns out to be an ugly rumor
telling Hillary when to go
is two lines at best
the rest is for show, not for jest
So take a tip from your Uncle Cameron
Brevity is the soul of wit when you're do'in the hammer'in.
Cameron

Posted Wed, May 14, 10:42 a.m. Inappropriate

the Bard, not Cameron: Uncle Cameron. Fun play here, but it's really not for you (or anyone) to appropriate Shakespeare as his own. "Brevity is the soul of wit" is a line offered by the uber-blustery Polonius in Shakespeare's longest play, "Hamlet." You'd do well to tune your sense of irony closer to that of the Bard and to be tolerant of Mr. Clifford for stretching his writing style here. His column certainly more interesting than so much of the other dreck accumulating in the dark corners of some other media websites.

Posted Wed, May 14, 10:15 p.m. Inappropriate

shakespeare or not; an emotional feeling let loose: So some of us rant and rave when we get strong feelings. So, i think maybe Mr. Clifford should have done most of that with his gal friend rather than in a blog on line, although some of it seemed to ryme. I do not believe Hilary; in that she says, if we vote/support her she; will help you. I think she lies. I do not trust or believe her. I doubt she would help me in my personel dilemna at all. I think she should drop out- ---, and would Barrack help my own problem? Doubt it, but he might be a better canditate than a several timed scorned female.
Norm Dicks has backed Hilary and I so far find the Honorable Mr., Dicks unsatisfactory in helping this constituent.
kvet

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