I've meant to repost this for a while. This was my actual first post ever on the blogspot site, if you don't count the two or three "Test" posts.

It's really childish, but it still sorta makes me laugh. I've done a little light editing on it, but basically it's the same stupid "The Raven" parody it was ten months ago.

It contains flagrant potty-mouth.

The Donkey

Dedicated wit love to Josh Marshall, Oliver Willis, Daily Kos, Atrios, and Andrew Sullivan

Once upon a midnight gloaming, my mouth agape and whitely foaming,
my frantic mind e'er roaming, roaming o'er outrages of liberal lore,
I gave my dork a playful slapping,
setting my balls slowly flapping,
but suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
`'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door--
Only this, and nothing more.'

Ah, distinctly I remember, as the calender thinned e'er closer to November,
tugging at my flacid member, trying to forget the anguish Bush v. Gore,
But still I awaited new elections; --
and vigorously I stroked my erections,
To fancies suiting my predilections -
dreams of Bush's eviction, Cheney's Halliburton conviction,
the proof of quagmire prediction, and avenging the crucifixion of sainted Martyr Albert Alphonse Gore--
But all this was madness; dreams only and only dreams
and surely nothing more.

And so in thought, my schlong palm-wrought, the pulsing urgency of my cock demanded more
But my jacking had to be stopped; just as I was recalling a a feel I once copped
off Eleanor Mondale, in nineteen eighty-four;
And so having paused my bishop-beating,
I stood there anxiously repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door--
Just a guy from MoveOn entreating entrance at my chamber door--
Leave me with my visions of the Daughters Gore.'

And so the pulsings of my cock grew stronger; and my weiner grew still longer,
but even now more urgently came the tapping at my door,
`Please!' I cried in frustration, `You're ruining my masturbation,
How can I continue stroking
whilst you're so insistently poking,
And so insistently poking, poking at my chamber door,
Thou hath spoilt my chicken-choking!'-- here I opened wide the door; --
Darkness there, and nothing more.

Of that darkness deeply drinking, my dinky winky, e'er shrinking,
Thinking, thinking thoughts I'd scarcely dared to dream before--
But the silence was oppressive,
and the Patriot Act so repressive,
And the only signal there expressive was the whispered word, `'04!'
This I whispered back, and an echo chanted back the word, `'04!'
Stiff I was, stiff like Albert Gore.

Back into the chamber turning, my choad within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely something at my window chants;
Let me tuck my wiener into my pants,
and with dork pant-sheathed let me this mystery explore--
Let give my prick a rest and this mystery explore; --
Let me venture, venture out beyond the safety of my door.

I stepped fearfully into the night, clutching throat and warding fright,
and then I smelled something foul, as foul as anything I'd smelled before.
For in the gloaming was something rank,
filling my nose with a bestial stank,
and there a shadowy figure of imposing girth, sniggering with malicious mirth,
Surely it could not be--
husky huckster Michael Moore??!

Open here I flung the shutter, raging like a DU-nutter,
In there stepped a strange donkey, draped in a campaign poster for Al Gore.
Not the least apology made he;
not an instant stopped or stayed he;
But, without a word in passing, his butthole venting and gassing,
he crapped a load of crap upon my chamber door--
Crapped upon the Impeach Bush welcome mat by my chamber door--
Crapped, and shat, and nothing more.

Then this wicked ass began beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the lunatic grin and crazy countenance it wore,
`Though thy droppings be upon my door, thou,' I said, `art sure not crass.
wild-eyed and lunatic ass wand'ring in from some Berkeley or Massachusetts shore--
Tell me what hath driven you from darkling domains to take a dump upon my modest door!'
Quoth the donkey, `Wait till 04.'

The donkey, sitting lonely on the stoop, having now pooped out a stinky poop,
Spake just this command, as if his soul in this demand he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered--
nor his tail he even fluttered--
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have shat my door before -
On the morrow the ass will leave me, as my hopes have flown with Al Gore.'
Then the ass said, `Wait till 04.'

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught beneath our fascist chimp master,
reeling from economic disaster,
Followed fast and followed faster till his brayings one burden bore--
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore
Of 'Wait Till '04.'

Then, methought, the air grew denser, stanked-up by the donkey's anal censer,
the stink of donkey-floppings whisping o'er the bust of Howard Dean standing by my chamber door.
`Ass,' I cried, `by thy words thou hath pained me--
by these poopstains hath thou stained me!
'Away, Strange Ass, away and bray no more, dismaying me with memories of Al Gore!
'I pray thee mercy and stop, stop reminding me of that Tennessean bore!'
Quoth the donkey, `Wait till 04.'

`Be that word our sign of parting, ass or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting, as the ass began loudly farting--
`Stop rubbing your ass all over my chamber door!
'Leave no brown loaf as a token
of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
'Leave my loneliness unbroken!-- stop crapping all over my floor!
'Take thy ass away from this place, and stop reminding me of Al Gore!'
Quoth the donkey, `Wait till 04.'

And that donkey, never flitting, still is sitting, still is shitting,
Below the portrait of George Soros beside by my chamber door;
O Cursed Ass! What mischief hath thou arranged,
my fragile psyche thou hath ill deranged,
'from my mind hath thou all sense estranged, filling me with false hope that all might be changed,
'changed-- do not tempt me with fancies strange, that the fascist chimp might yet be exchanged
'for President Kerry and Secretary of State Al Gore!'

And yet the evil ass still is sitting, his dirty ass ever shitting,
shitting o'er the crystal unicorns arranged upon my floor;
And dares me yet to dream, dream of taking the White House once more,
of Borking judges on the Senate floor,
of paying unwed mothers, cutting the military like we've never cut before,
legalizing pot, hugging trees, and giving heroin needles to the poor,
My mind has become unhinged; I've joined the political fringe!
Just you all wait -- wait till 04!