jerry hughes - THE END IS NIGH

The little sewer rat John Howard
can't swim against the tide of public
loathing and distrust any longer.

Facing ignominious defeat and the
loss of his own seat, his paraplegic
morning walk is now a mourning wake.

Hoisted on his own petard, little Johnny
faces the remaining years being nagged
to his grave by his awful, scheming wife.

jerry hughes

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