Verse of the Day (A.M. Juster, on an Ambitious Government Bureaucrat)

“Your uphill climb will never stop;
   scum always rises to the top.” —Poet, translator, and essayist A.M. Juster (pseudonym for Michael J. Astrue, former head of the Social Security Administration), “To My Ambitious Colleague,” in Sleaze and Slander: New and Selected Comic Verse, 1995-2015 (2016)