Editor,

If girls are sugar and spice and boys are puppy dog tails

What’s an old politician on the campaign trail?

Senator Barbara Bailey, we see all your signs

but you’re always missing, so we can only know the lines

of your public disclosure, which lists big pots of cash

to pay for those signs and your mailings of trash.

Last time you spent half a million smearing the best rep we ever had

Then said, “I didn’t know nothing” and “I haven’t been bad.”

Got rid of our Mary Margaret, the Queen of the Senate

who’d brought us ferry contracts, the Greenbank Farm and so many benefits

now you’ve returned with empty hands and claims that education is higher

— such a strange position for a climate denier

But the pros in Olympia say that you’re just fibbin

that you’re allergic to work and only cut ribbons

Put your name on bills you haven’t even read

so Barbi, is that the reason your phones are all dead?

We wondered who you worked for until we did see

All the companies who gave the max on your PDC

Big oil, the Koch Brothers, Tesoro, Chevron and BP twice

So is it: “Show me the gold and I’ll play nice?”

Big pharmaceuticals: Merck, Novartis, Bristol Meyers, Amgen and Pfizer

Do you tell them “Give the maximum — my district won’t be wiser.”

Boeing, Microsoft, Weyerhaeuser and the banks

Tell us dear Barbara, how do you say thanks?

Builders, realtors, insurance companies and AT&T

Ah so, we now know your first priority

It’s not people you think of as you share our state’s bounty

you’re working for others, not Island County

spinning gold into votes is a simple trick

but did you think we can’t read or that we’re just hicks?

I expect we’ll turn our backs on you and your Trump

Because we see where you’re leading, and it’s just the dump.

THOM GUNN

Greenbank