The President and Me: Two Poems Inspired by Obama

Poem the First

I went to buy myself a game

my mom said, "No, you're broke."

I went to buy myself a book

My mom said, "That's a joke!

"You haven't any money,

and there's none for me to lend."

I said, "Neither does the president

"but his mom still lets him spend."

But she said, "It doesn't work that way

"and you're not the president."

Then I said, "I guess I'll have to go

"and Join the government."

Poem the Second

The president and me

went out walking by the sea

I asked him to explain

what's wrong with the economy

and he rattled off some things

that I didn't understand

and he said, "Do good in school"

then he paused to shake my hand

and I really couldn't tell

If it was me or him

but for all his fancy talk

I thought he was rather dim

If you've got no money in the bank

then why take out a loan?

You've got to pay it back somehow

not just promise on the phone