Poetry corner

There once was a mayor named Ted

Whose MBA went to his head

The cops he defunded

The tent rules he undid

And now the whole downtown is dead

 

There is a Latina named Carmen

Whose free-spending ways are alarmin’

To feast at the trough it’s

More pork for nonprofits

She doesn’t care whom she is harmin’

There was a professor named Mapps

Who suffered a terrible lapse

He once talked good sense

But now he seems dense

And for his career we play “Taps”

There once was a guy named Rene

Who tried to tell bums to obey

But he got shouted down

By the Commies in town

’Cause that’s the Portlandian way

 

There’s a gentleman known as Dan Ryan

To shelter some homeless he’s tryin’

But he’s going so slow

There’s little to show

And most of the addicts are dyin’