Lockdown Pennsylvania Avenue
With the
impeachment trial
An enemies
list
Disdain
for lawful protest
Rejection
of civil rights
And
disregard for civil liberties
The horrors
of the day
Recall the
reign of Tricky Dick
Who
resigned in disgrace
But it was
LBJ who hunkered down
In the
Oval Office
Locked
down in the White House
While an
army of vocal protesters
Camped out
beyond the fence
And
refused to leave
LBJ ended
his reign under siege
In an act
of common decency
To spare
the nation further pain
He refused
to seek a second term
Acknowledged
nothing more to gain
If only
this president
Had the
decency of LBJ
He would
step down and fade away
But he is
neither Nixon nor LBJ
He’s under
lockdown behind razor wire
In the fortress
on Pennsylvania Avenue
Alone and
despondent
He knows
now he couldn’t make the grade
He curses
ghosts in the darkness
Lashes out
at those he sees
Devolves
into madness
Issuing
his decrees
Johnson escalated
Vietnam
Nixon
doubled down
But neither
put our troops
On
American ground
