[Newspoetry] Serial Killer Runs for President

[Mike Lehman]

Stop him before he kills again
He's killed before
And will no doubt kill again
If given the chance to
His crimes are "the reason
why we need a Death Penalty"

It has gotten so bad
The public so jaded
That many of his killings
Are not even noted
In the Establishment Press
Now it is news
When he doesn't kill

All this is very sad
He's the "compassionate conservative"
It takes a tender man like that
To pull the switch
To tie the hangman's knot
To dump the poisonous pellets
To pull the trigger
To flick open a blade
To beat the head
To strangle the neck
To shake the child

Killing is all the same
Bad deeds
Done for the wrong reason
In nearly all cases
A man with his kind of compassion
Needs mercy
Not to be in charge of
Passing it out.