Satire is just a fancy word for teasing.
High-brow whit at power’s expense is pleasing.
Institutions, too, are overlap targets…
Ridiculous bureaucratic laugh markets.
Then, there’s people of archetype character.
Priest, politician, banker & actor.
The job of the satirist is to deride.
Expose the folly & corruption they’ve spied.
The work one must do requires a three pronged tool.
They’re irony, sarcasm & ridicule.
L.B.Stowe 