AUG 10, a brief saga (American satire): Mar-a-lago, the dacha

Authors' Note: 

NARA (NAY-ruh): acronym for the US agency National Archives and Records Administration

‘M.B.S’: Mohammid bin Salman, Saudi prince

 The name of the Florida estate, Mar-a-lago, might have been better formulated by its builder Marjorie Post in Spanish as Mar-al-lago, or in Italian as Mare-al-lago. 

  It is noted that the following are palindromes:

Deified  (but not ‘declassified’)

Dacha: ah!, cad. 

Mar-a-lago: O, gal, a ram!

  The Mar-a-lago estate, purchased by Donald Trump in 1985, served since 2016 as the 'Southern White House’. In 2021, having lost the national election of November 2020, Trump decamped from the White House to Mar-a-lago, taking with him, contrary to regulations, a substantial number of government documents.  

  John McCain and Jeff Flake were Republican senators from Arizona who became vocal opponents of DJT. 

 For the purpose of this blog, a 'brief saga' is defined as a poem, usually narrative, but occasionally expository, that tell its story in at least 15 lines. Most commonly, the format involves three stanzas in limerick form, constituting a single submission to the online humor site 'Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form'. On the OEDILF site, rigorous standards for content and format are involved in a collaborative editing process that may take several weeks to over a year. 

 There are now over 40 of these lengthier bits of doggerel featured at OEDILF in Giorgio's "Author's Showcase". The OEDILF number for each accepted multiverse poem is shown here on the slide with its first verse. We have been blog-publishing these poetic adventures here monthly since January 2020.

To access the next 'brief saga' (September 2022), proceed to Beri-beri (vitamin B1 deficiency).

To access the most recent previous 'brief saga' (July 2022), back up to 'Careers --  pluralia tantum' (Grandpa Greg's advanced grammar). 

To access all of our 'brief sagas' by the year of their creation, click on your selection below.

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2021
2022
2023.

  If you have enjoyed these verses on the theme of American political satire, you might like to proceed to view other items in our collection including:

- 'American satire: A Term of Endirement'

-  'Poetry and Pathos: Gun Control Verses' 

- 'The Fun with Impeachment Collection'

- 'political palindromes A through P' (click HERE to start)

  There are also some parody-song lyrics posted in 2019 and 2020, that you might like, including: 

- 'Brennan's Tweet'

- 'Rosenstein'- 'Kooky Presidential Views' 

- 'Jailhouse Now'

- 'Vlad Putin's Blogger'

- 'Indiana Song'

- 'Get Me Roger Stone', and 

- 'The Ballad of Giuliani', part I and part II.