Texas Tally Ban

 

 

The right to vote for every man

The essence of being an American

Lost to the win-anyway-I- can

It’s a  Texas version of a Tally ban.

 

Already the hardest place to vote,

Texas amends the tough laws they wrote.

Your votes are suspect unless Republican

So says the snarky Texas Tally-ban

 

They need no mirrors, whispers,  or smoke

Bold- no cloak, and this is not a  joke

The next election tally will not stand

Until approved by the Texas Tallyban

 

The line of our great democracy

The sacred trust from me to thee

The stuff that keeps Americans free

Would thus fall to a little Texas tyranny

 

It’s odd-that a place so big and grand

Can stomach such a tawdry band

Sawing-off the branch on which they stand

that clever Texas Tally-ban

 

They turned Lincoln’s dream into a rune

With all  depth and wisdom of a kiddie toon

Fall they must, for truth trampled by man

Will rise-  a swift boot in their Texas Tally-can

 

To kill the asp the Bard once said

Must be smashed while in the egg

So, I’m for taking up an iron pan

To quash the Texas Tally-ban

 

It is a painful sight;  to see

Democracy on wobbled knees

The lies are big and Texas-tall

The words are slippery like Texas oil

 

But so rude, crude, and clear to see

The victims are truth and decency

On muddy bellies, they stoop so low

to deliver their pernicious blows

 

But miss the mark—the heart goes on

Still beats strong, resisting wrongs

‘Gainst evil  born to darkness, it fights

Tally-bans burn and die in the light

 

It needs a thundered voice of an outraged nation

Doubtless outrage without further hesitation

to enable the stroke of a wise man's pen

to rescue voting  from the Texas Tally-Ban