A sweetheart deal for Ed

Elected, Ed Case can surely be.

To what office, however, he cannot see.

He could always arrange

A surgical sex change

And compete in the Miss Hawaii pageantry

Daily headlines inspire the poet in Joe Gedan, a retired U.S. magistrate judge who lives in Honolulu. His observations on the news appear on Sundays and Fridays. gedan@hawaii.rr.com