Sense Sonnet - Tickler

Squeaks

"Essential" government workers,
If the government does shut down,
Will be the spinners and jerkers,
Good at the tricks in D.C town.
Like Squeaks the Mouse with comic book
Selling for five and costing ten.
The kind of finance that it took
To dig the hole of debt we're in.
Selling Squeak's comic book may cease
In a shutdown scenario,
But Squeaks has other wheels to grease,
And off to grease 'em Squeaks will go.

Don't worry about Squeaks the Mouse.
He's doing spin at the White House.