Dear Mr. President

Take a lesson from James T West

Sometimes doing surveillance

Requires looking under someone’s vest

We deal with shady characters

Each and every day

We need to scan the hotel rooms

Where you plan to stay

What better vantage point is there

Than from a king sized bed

To find the bugs and cameras

That would be recording what you said

Remember speaking to the Russian

When you forgot to turn yours off

Now you look like an idiot

And at your credibility we scoff

You now ask us for probity

And that’s just what we’ve done

Each of us has used our probes

And no one found a gun

Sleep well tonight Mr. President

We are here to serve

We’re sorry all the do-gooders

Have thrown you such a curve

Copyright © 2012 Patrick Granfors