Perhaps not surprising, the political and scatological events of this past week were screaming out for some Stress Doc verse.  I literally couldn’t help myself.  As a friend noted:  It’s like shooting fish in a barrel!   Hey, when life sinks into the sewer…my advice – skewer, skewer.  Enjoy!  Mark

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Talkin Red Birds/Blue Birds:  A Stress Doc Psycho-Political Parody

You hawked the talk

Then stalked her talk

And thrust your beak

In blue bird’s neck

Drawing blood

Your food for thought.

Squeeze every ounce without regret

Then game the system corporate.

You’re a bully, a Red Bull bully

Who always gets his way

A money bully, without boundary, yet

The first to cry, “Foul Play!”

The best way to get ahead

Always being in the red.

Of course, folks do get screwed

(Some not even in the nude)

As you lay out the king sheet-spread

In your big tax sheltered bed.

Oh stuff happens, oh stuff happens

Oh stuff happens every day

Oh don’t worry, just be happy

Find a lawyer… walk away!

Yes, blue bird, too, does “The Street” walk

Perhaps her version – “locker talk”

For when it comes to lobby suite

Both red and blues sing….tweet, tweet, tweet!

Rock and Rob em, Rock and Rob em

For Robber Barons

Might makes right

Rock and Rob em, Rock and Rob em

Robber Barons, with their harems

Better watch your pants tonight!

One might be the lesser evil, but

Are you really on the level?

Taunting she’s devoid of shame

When you play the gulag game:

Time for “the devil’s” jail house walk

Oh let those blue birds squawk, squawk, squawk

The constitution’s writ in chalk

For one blood-thirsty chicken hawk.

Oh when it comes to Russian sweet

Those demagogues sing….tweet, tweet, tweet!

Rootin Tootin, Rootin Tootin

We’re in bed with Mr. Putin

Rootin Tootin, All that Lootin

Lips and hips just keep on shootin

Say one thing, but then refutin

With all of this there’s no disputin…

We now have our own Rasputin!

With all of this there’s no disputin…

We have our Cherry Red Rasputin!

©  Mark Gorkin  2016

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Mark Gorkin, MSW, LICSW, "The Stress Doc" ™, a nationally acclaimed speaker, writer, and "Psychohumorist" ™, is a founding partner and Stress Resilience and Trauma Debriefing Consultant for the Nepali Diaspora Behavioral Health & Wellness Initiative.  A former Stress and Violence Prevention Consultant for the US Postal Service, he has led numerous Pre-Deployment Stress Resilience-Humor-Team Building Retreats for the US Army.  The Doc is the author of Practice Safe Stress, The Four Faces of Anger, and Preserving Human Touch in a High Tech World.  Mark’s award-winning, USA Today Online "HotSite" – www.stressdoc.com – was called a "workplace resource" by National Public Radio (NPR).  For more info, email:  stressdoc@aol.com.