Guinness Taps Out

Guinness could not find a way

Of sponsoring St. Patrick's Day,

Having failed to have swayed

Those who run the parade

To authorize floats that are gay. 

It's a green of a diff'rent complexion

That causes the brewer's objection,

As the times, they have changed

And hence rearranged

The sponsorship fiscal projection. 

It's not that they don't see the profit

In St. Paddy's, and what they make off it;

It's how they appraise

The changing mores

Of the many straight drinkers who quaff it. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day to those who wear the green, as well as all the other colors of the rainbow.