The Deficit

Putting on my thinking beanie

I would have to be Houdini

To untangle the linguini

That our deficit presents.

Raising taxes, slashing wasteful

Programs with a flourish tasteful,

Sometimes in a manner hasteful,

All to keep us from resents.

This is more than God Almighty

Could obtain, and man is flighty,

In his business suite or nightie;

All our dreams will be descents.