Get your daily dose of poetry from the oh-so-prolific, Leon Freilich:

THE CANDIDATES

McCAIN SIGNS ON

Awful for anyone to be tortured,

Kept in pain by scorcherers;

Worse, perhaps, when the victim

Sides with the torturers

SHIFTING HILL

Each move is calculated,

Consistent with her goals;

Her eye is on Obama

And I know she watches polls.

BEEN WHERE, DONE WHAT?

Barack Obama,

As some have seen,

Radiates–

Obama’s green.

SPEAKS FOR THE U.S.

Should Obama and Hillary Clinton deadlock

The prospects can still be rosy

If Dems turn to real experience

And nominate Nancy Pelosi.