Verses from Headlines in the Washington Post -- ‘Juliet and Romeo’: Newly unearthed text suggests how Milton might have edited Shakespeare -- Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao faces investigation over ‘troubling’ ethics allegations -- As Trump prepares big push on homelessness, White House floats new role for police.

I'm afraid I find it hard

reading Avon's noted Bard.

Such ripe language ain't for me;

it gives my brain perplexity.

Make his plays some novels graphic

and he's bound to get more traffic.

Until then lip service is

all I'll pay that English whiz. 

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What's the matter, anyhow,

with that Secretary Chao?

Don't she know the right from wrong;

do we have to beat a gong

so attention she will pay

to the fact that she does stray

from the path of virtue by

giving mom and dad some pie?

Let's play fair, O Ms. Elaine,

letting others bid for gain!

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Remember cops from Hollywood

who patrolled the neighborhood

and when finding hobos on

park benches at chilly dawn

used their billy clubs to beat

on the hobo's freezing feet

to encourage them to find

someplace else to park their hind?

Now today Trump thinks the cops

will improve their brutal ops

with a loving touch to those

with no home, in ragged clothes.

I'll believe such raw malark

when farm chickens start to bark.