A Sweet Victory in Troubled Times

     The Bloomberg ban on large soft drinks in New York City has been summarily defeated.  I am happy to report that I had a hand in that victory--as can be seen by the poem that I posted about a year ago.  This success is a telling reminder that if the forces for freedom and justice keep fighting, America will be able to pull itself out of its statist dive.  The following is an encore presentation of my prose:


The Crossing
by Paul Wharton

Gather around the lunch table to hear a story of your past
about a dictator's encroachment of your rights that did not last.
Two terms he served, by limited law--but, that was the most allowed.
Bloomberg's three it was?  Like to The Kenyan, Obama, you have bowed.

Tax money burden of the sick?  We couldn't just refrain from force.
So, Michael claims it is good health care cracking down upon a source.
If its more state medicine we want, then Bloomberg is a wizard;
but, most love liberty and see a freedom guzzling gizzard.

The regulatory rooster crows that his nanny rule is law,
shrinking down the cup of Coke you enjoy with a scratch of his paw.
"Arbitrary and capricious" a judge unfurls a flag of old
that brings to mind Vanderbilt's crossing through the water--tall and bold.

Coca-Cola cries that from Michael, New York City must be free!
When the tallied votes are dismissed--the ones that say the mayor's he.
Like Rush pointed out, "portion control" indulgence is out of line
when a power-thirsty "mayor" thinks his term limits are not fine.

But, the battle rages still; and you have the hero's choice to tell
your children of the time, when you bought the Big Cup Coke had to sell.
The black marketeers are already pushing off from Jersey banks
with Big Cups to smuggle trade and profit into the rebel ranks.

Bloomberg says the danger is great.  To you it is a deadly fact
that state force will descend upon those who defy The Sugar Act.
But, I only ask that you stand and resist a few precious weeks
in doing the opposite of what prohibition says and seeks.

Is it irrational to go to war and risk one's cherished life,
or less so, as one gains a little weight in your home with your wife?
If there is to be enforcement or judicial prosecution,
sue Bloomberg for wrecking one's diet during the revolution.


Special thanks to Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) for being the fuel of my mind, and Coca-Cola (KO) for quenching my thirst for liberty while writing this poem.