‘Attend The Tale’: First Draft Complete!
“Attend the Tale of Speaker Pete
His fall from grace is well nigh complete
His cargo shorts and his sun-baked pate
Did nothing to save Speaker Pete from his fate
With KMG he felt complete
Did Speaker Pete
The Laughingstock of Rehoboth.
He ran the show in Dover Town
He scared the minions, then chopped them down
And though his pharmacist filled no scrips,
Her blue pills kept Speaker Pete more-or-less stiff
That’s Petey
That’s Speaker Pete
The flaccid has-been in Dover
‘Swing Your nightstick high, Petey
Beat them ’til they’re sore.
Smash them in their skulls and skin
For LEOBOR.”
This could use some editing. Nathan? You like Sondheim, AND you’re a scribe. Any suggestions? Or is this (a) beyond hope or (b) perfection personified?
Oh, you want the source material? Here ya go:
Tentative Chorus:
‘Swing Your nightstick hard, Petey
Smash ’em ’til they’re sore.
Skull and skin are just no match
For LEOBOR.”
Still working on that second verse…
Nice, but the second verse should maybe reflect his quickly waning power. When I confronted him Saturday, he went through the motions, but the Big Bully energy was not there. When I pushed back, he did not even go a second round. He is a spent force:).
Yikes! I this really the end of Little Rico, er… I meant Petey and the almighty power of the Kop Kabal? We shall see, but if this keeps up we may well experience good government in Delaware. Yes, nothing more then a flight of fancy at this point, but we can dream, of yes, we can dream.
Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell is gone. Kop supporter Andria Bennett is gone (remember when they covered up her beating up her husband, probably at Pete’s request?). Kop Kabalist Steve Smyk is out of the House and, Yahweh willing, will lose to Russ Huxtable and be out of the GA altogether.
Next time: Franklin Cooke, assuming that Matt Meyer can take time out from carrying Deb Heffernan’s carcass around, and stops the County cops from intimidating a Cooke opponent out of the race, as they did this year. (I know that those impacted are reluctant to talk, but, if I was an editor, I’d have a reporter at least follow up on this as it really happened.)
Pete will be out of leadership, leaving only Our PAL Val remaining. He’ll likely be gone from the General Assembly no later than 2024. Things are looking up.
Bill Bush and Lumpy should also be on the target list for 2024.
Of course. I was just talking about genuine Kop Kabalists.
El Som – Just saw this. I think it’s great. Not sure I could improve anything, but I’ll ponder it.