But Today, I Confess


Political Satire in Verse


So poor Harry Whittington thought:
"A Washington expert I'm not;
But I was insaney
To hunt with Dick Cheney,
For by my old friend I was shot!"


What if politicians had to tell the truth about what they were doing instead of telling the public what they want to hear?

From illegal wiretaps to torture memos, from the White House to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, the Bush Administration staged a relentless assault upon the rule of law and Constitutional democracy in our nation.

The poems of But Today, I Confess -- including haiku, limericks, sonnets, cinquains, ballads, and blank verse -- use candor and humor to hold the Bush Administration's misdeeds up to the light of common sense.

The collection includes Secretary of War, recipient of the John Wood Creative Writing Award, and the above Poor Harry Whittington, winner of the Evelyn Wade and Viette Sandbank Memorial Prize.

The 2013 eBook edition features six additional poems not included in the 2008 print edition.

Read the new poems: Jeb Bush: His Own Man and The Choice. More new poems are found on Facebook.

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Cover Art "Exchange for a Crown" reprinted with permission, © 2005 Mike Keefe, The Denver Post
Congratulations to Mike Keefe for winning the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning!
"All I got is a red guitar, three chords, and the truth.
All I got is a red guitar... the rest is up to you."
- Bono, 1988