The Nomination of Sarah P: An awesome satire

I've always been a fan of Robert Service and his ballads about Sam McGee. My father's rendition of "Fifty below in the ice and snow, when into the dim and the glare..." has stayed with me over the decades (despite the fact that the above line is slightly mis-remembered).

Service wrote these poems in and about the Yukon Territory, but they translate pretty well to Alaska. And now a chap called Gary Shapiro has cleverly satirized recent political events as The Nomination of Sarah P. adapted from the original Cremation of Sam McGee.

Hilarious stuff...and yes it is long, but that's Robert Service for you, writing before we had radios and TVs and blogs and twitters to entertain us in teeny snippets. But oh alright then, here's a snippet to get you started:

There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By Republicans seeking votes;
The campaign trails have their secret tales –
Indeed their own “Deep Throats.”
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night in the hall in old St. Paul:
They opted for Sarah P.

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