Three jolly jousting engineers
Friends from their youth
At the somewhat prestigious institute of technology
One tall the other two of average height
Each one puer aeternus
Having committed to a life of fun
Their profession routine enough
Not to require too much attention or application
Each family under the care of a first or second wife
They had invested their time early
In calculus and lab sciences
So they pretty much knew stuff
Unknown to the masses or even to the experts
And secretly they shared the belief
That they had it all over Einstein Obama and say Jefferson
Careers to support innocent amusements
As operating motorized vehicles
Rapidly over water or dry land
Consuming tumblers of bourbon over ice
Competitions involving modest exertion
Or inflicting upon each other the small pain
Of being messed with pranked and ranked
The rituals of homosociality
Proud of their neurotypicality
And indeed of their neurosuperiority
Though they would not have so phrased it
They were aware and they approved of the fact
That they were favored
In wealth social class complexion gender and achievement
Not unduly concerned about thinning hair
About bellies that fell over belts a bit
About chronic conditions easily controlled with medication
They didn’t care about politics
Except insofar as they
Who contributed
Did not enjoy taxation
To support a government of takers
And though they were not vigorous
In their exercise of the franchise
They endorsed those candidates for office
Who said aloud what everybody was thinking
Everybody who mattered
Everybody they themselves knew
And they cherished no intention these merry knights
Of relinquishing their pleasures
To the benefit of the slothful underprivileged