As Brief as a Mouse Can be

Every week Calvin Trilling serves up a slice of doggerel in The Nation pulp magazine. Usually his fare is blatantly forgettable, but this week's deserves repetition (if not memorization). I paraphrase the punch line:

A lame duck cannot fly
But it can defecate.

I add a comment: this particular duck may not always have been lame, but it has always been quite capable of shitting on the American people (one-fifth of whom still seem to enjoy being shat upon).