Political Poetry: “Governor Sam Brownback” by Gary R. Hess – A Clerihew from ‘Kansas Caricatures in Verse’

Governor Sam Brownback
musn’t have wanted the state to have greenbacks

he began cutting taxes
and turned the state to ashes
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“Governor Sam Brownback” is taken from “Kansas Caricatures in Verse: Humorous Poems for Funny Minds” (Bright Dreams Journal Book 4)
Copyright 2015.

This poem is written in the poetic form Clerihew.

Gary R. Hess

Gary was born and raised on a small farm in rural Kansas. Today, he is teaching various nationalities English in Southeast Asia. Get his newest poetry eBook here.

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