Ade's Ken & Other Quatrains

Ade's* ken of economy? 
Groundless; astounding:
Ade sins for a penny.
[Ade’s in for a pounding.] 

How ever shall "done deals" 
or faits accomplis grow
with Congress misled
by the whites who say "Negro!"?

Islamicist cinemen,
Shi'ite or Sunni,
shall garner no Oscar: 
they haven't a Clooney.

John's* Trask family dwells
on the outskirts of Eden:
both Trask twins be "-ists":
Aron, "pur-"; Caleb, "hedon-"

* Author Steinbeck

Miss Sawyer's* brew notes
grew -- they waxed iambic -- 
once arid Mary'd
had a little lambic.

* Mary Sawyer, later Mrs. Mary 
Tyler, of "Mary's Lamb" fame

Romney’s Humvee's chauffeur'd
by a dormant Sir Dwight Streeme:
Inquire, when Ike wakes, "What be
Mitt's Hummer's Knight's dream?"

This should aid your recall
of the Legion of Decency
calling "Nude Pledge of Allegiance"
indecent: see...!?!

Unable to pen
a penultimate line post
fail’d Alzheimer's tests? 
That's a sure Auld Lang Signpost!  

Xiu -- chef at Panda Baroque
on Quemoy --
serves a sig dish call’d 
Johann Sebastian Bach Choy.