Could the gaping black hole in the center be unintentionally symbolic?

DYNASTY 

by Anne Animus

A paterfamilias named Joe

To whose dynastic dreams, God said, “NO!”

Had four sons who rose high.

He’d see three of them die,

And the fourth play a windbag of woe.

~ § ~

The matriarch Rose had it rough

Staying constantly pregnant was tough

Hearing Joe’s mistress sing

In the family guest wing

Made her feel that “Enough is enough!”

~ § ~

But Rose, a resilient old bird

In case you never have heard,

Lived to one-hundred-four,

Though we can’t think what for,

Except triumph, till she was interred. 

     

~ § ~

Joe, Jr. was killed in the sky;

“Giving service,” they said “on the fly.”

Heaven knows what we missed

When Mortality kissed

The first K-son, and bid him "Good bye!".

~ § ~

After Jack became prexy a stroke

Sidelined Joe, but he failed to croak

His wife’s deep resentment

Deprived Joe of contentment,

Then Oswald made Joe’s life a joke.

 ~ § ~

Sirhan Sirhan then took Bobby,

Who was power-mad, and prone to lobby

To reach greater heights,

But in Sirhan’s gun sites

He lost every ambition and hobby.

~ § `

The corpulent creep they called Teddy

Led a life vile, incautious and heady.

“Chap my dick quick!” he cried,

But poor Mary Jo died.

(She drowned before Teddy was ready!)

~ § ~

No one should e’er sing a threnody

For even a single Kennedy.

We shan’t sing a dirge,

For these folk were a scourge –

An entity without amenity.