Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better
—Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney got a new heart. To replace the one he was missing at birth.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. It’s red like the devil’s horns on his head.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. So he can triple bypass the abject poor.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. He can jog—but, for God’s sake, don’t let him run.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. It has no left atrium and no left ventricle.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. It has four fully loaded echo chambers.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. It ticks like a weapon of mass deconstruction.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. He invented the term A-fib.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. With a sticker that says I Heart Halliburton.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. It beats like the one in The Wizard of Oz.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. How about a little waterboarding, Scarecrow?
Dick Cheney got a new heart. But I don’t think he’ll send me a valentine this year.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. As the guilty donor sighs in his grave.
Dick Cheney got a new heart. Let him live and be well . . . and shut his heartless mouth.
(from Habeas Corpus: Glass Lyre Press, 2015)
Cindy Hochman