The Tower of Hoover leans off to the right,
Avoiding what's left of it, save in a fight;
Deriding the liberals, scribbling memos
Rousing Republicans, damning all Demos.
The Tower of Hoover is crowded with books:
Both right wing and left wing are packed in its nooks.
With such information, it's always a riddle
Why more of its scholars don't stand in the middle.
The Tower of Hoover is phallic to some;
While others contend that it's like a sore thumb,
But while it remains, conversation is fuller --
Without it, the campus would surely be duller.
Originally published in SUL News Notes, March 19, 1993.
c 1993, 1995 Fleabonnet Press for the author.