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It bothers me to know, come November,
That only two candidates will be offered,
Each, future is determined to encumber,
With ideas bad as his opposite number.
Each may also have notions quite bad,
That might help some folk get ahead,
Despite non-math idiocy fad,
Others must pay, after all’s been said.
Neither candidate helps everyone,
One panders this group, other that,
And with every big program that’s done,
A bigger mess, more pork, more fat.
How fun, if candidate was articulated,
Could take a piece here, replace with that,
Do Frankenstein proud, if pieces formulated,
Not body — but his mind we’d carve at.
Maybe I’d start with GB — not too bad,
I’d excise desire to not maintain
Separation of church and state, the cad,
And remove degradations certain,
By not siteing in government institutions
School prayer, Nativity and Decalogues,
And by not siteing on private distributions,
Versions of sex police and pettifogs.
To start with domestic policy needs,
Insert energy conservation priority,
Add energy source development seeds,
Then sew in a piece for stem cell authority,
I’d leave the piece, tax cuts to keep,
Add a piece to trim abhorrent waste,
Cut corporate welfare quite deep,
Government hogs get barely a taste.
Weed out population expansion bonus,
Limit tax deductions on child dependents,
Limit immigration to green card status
And to integratable new residents.
Foreign policy pieces we’d insert,
Even-handed Mid-East policy,
Israel: withdraw from Palestine dirt,
Palestine: you reign in bombers, see?
Iraq: if democracy fails, partition three,
Afghanistan: continue current plan,
U.N.: re-engage, more cooperative be,
Soften grip, but keep big stick in hand.
My candidate and yours not from same can,
For we likely have divergent notions.
Alas, either is virtual boogey man,
With mind pieced from various promotions.
Now isn’t that the way it already is,
Each candidate comes in November,
Has favorite mindset, virtual pieces
Very few of ours he’ll remember.
Each voter sees what we want to see,
But what we see is not what we get:
Frankenstein mind, quilted not by me —
But special interest with largest bet!
© 2004 R. Leland Waldrip
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From a literary standpoint, I have a small quibble in Stanza 6: the word "siteing" doesn't exist, according to Merriam-Webster Online. Did you intend to use "citing" instead? Otherwise, it looks good to me, as usual.
I'll always remember a slogan written on a bridge over the M4 Motorway in South Wales during the dark days of the 80's when the Thatcher government was busy slitting the throat of Wales. It read
'Wales is ruled by a government it did not elect'
Meaning..... the conservatives ruled over Wales despite the fact that not one single Conservative candidate won a seat in Wales !!
As they said in The Matrix ' Fate is not without a sense of irony and humour' !!
In that case, I'll vote for you. Hmmmm... Leland.... I'm a dedicated liberal... but politicians, as a rule, cause a rash... and I'm not fully
immunized. All in all, for me, it boils down to idiology... sigh... and I'm still hoping an ELECTED preseident (in my lifetime)
remembers what that is. Sign me disillusioned but ever hopeful. (grin) Thanks for the alterations on this breezy, freewheeling piece.
katy xox.
Geeeee it gives me colic cramps just to think about it!!
But reading you help alot thank you!!
Love Tinka
You have shown here that we do not understand what The Constitution of The United States of America, means, and that is the reason that this Government Violates it, and we have tolerated, and therefore violated it too.
You, Poet of Voice of Justice, are telling us here that if we don't read and obey the Constitution of The United States of America, we will ended up in a slave yard.
I will tell the Congressman of my area to READ the Constitution, and to demand that the Officers of Government do it too, and invite everyone to do the same.
The existing US Congress has supported a Government that violated the Constitution; therefore both are enemies of the Sovereignty of the People of United States of America.
The people, only the people have SOVEREIGNTY. When the Executive Officer violates the Constitution, REMOVAL shall be ordered and the OUTLAW removed and prosecuted accordingly. Now if the Congressmen misrepresent the people, then the situation is very clear: REMOVAL IS THE ANSWER.
Let us read The Constitution of The United States of America, what is written there one must obey! You don’t need to be any genius to explain what is there. If it says REMOVAL, it is removal. That is the smallest book of the legal letters, Please, READ it, give yourself a chance to learn Freedom, and to demand obedience of our basic and HIGHEST LAW, LEARN IT AND DEMAND RESPECT FOR IT, before the schools of our children become a slave-yard.
Most Honorable Free-Citizen and Esteemed Poet, if my comments cause inconvenience to Your readers, please print it and send it to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, DC.
I am very pleased to know a true free American.
Thank You for using You writing Gifts to defend the interest of the Sovereignty of our people.
Patriotically, and Respectfully,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
P.S.:
”Tolerate not! Tolerance feeds corruption,
Offending as iconoclasts of RIGHTS…
Nurturing the trees of disgrace and poverty!”
>>>Memorandum To A Poet < < <By Me
This is a great write Leland.
Pam
this is yer designer canidate ---
now, what about those running for House and Senate?
good idea
john+
LOL--i was hoping to vote for garfield, the cat
lasagna for everyone LOL
hysterical write--but one that rings with solid truth
i'm not too crazy with the choices we have--God help us :)
(((HUGS))) and love, karla. :)