Even President Barack Obama's senior advisor Valerie Jarrett admits the so-called American Jobs Act has not been fully written yet. That fact would have been impossible to ascertain by listening to the president's recent address to a joint session of Congress. His rhetoric delivered before an actual plan even exists and, of course, Edgar Allan Poe have inspired the verses below.

Once upon a summer evening, while the Congress was convening
Hoping they would get to witness oratory skill
In strode a familiar fellow, who before had seemed so mellow,
Now began to speak in tones bordering on shrill
Perhaps in an attempt to bring to legs another thrill
Quoth Obama, "Pass this bill"

Continued...

How distinctly I remember, on the eighth of that September
Hanging onto every word he spoke that night until
I realized that from this man came only words and not a plan
Offering us nothing but the same old verbal swill
I listened but began to feel more than a little ill
Quoth Obama, "Pass this bill"

Though there was no bill to pass, he still demanded do it fast
For there was not a bit of time we could afford to kill
Many jumped up to applaud ignoring the tremendous fraud
While others sat in silence stunned and still
And he continued onward with his trill
Quoth Obama, "Pass this bill"

On and on the words did flow, all meaning lost a while ago
Yet still he kept on lecturing there upon the Hill
Demanding others get on board with more ideas we can't afford
But when it came to details those were blanks he did not fill
That single phrase into our minds was all he could instill
Quoth Obama, "Pass this bill"