Muffin-Top Mindset

The sluggishness of whole milk yogurt
the density of a rock
the stubbornness of a non-stick bakepan
put it all togetha'
something we shouldn't have to digest

Hello You-Know-Who
astride your hubris wanton phantoms
galloping ever forward for misbegotten pleasures
while folds of narcissistic excess flubbercate your minds

You who would cry "Intimidation"
you who would suck up to carrots of gold on a stick
whether in hidden coffers offshore
or upon festooned plates for offerings

Yes you who know better
boiling fearmongering in your sauce pan du jour
need to step away from the overly stoked flames of influence
and get out of the kitchen

As those of us informed
have scanned your gluttonous recipes
choosing raw seeds and nuts
over your refined junk-food-rhetoric called
do as I say
not as I do

Yeah, Sparky
the cliché fits
your place or mine
uttered behind sanctimonious whisper
you dress-up dons of cross-hairs
attackers on maps
chalkboards
golden microphones
et al
while coveting a new Brand of
cross-keyed tiara
you'd steal in a heartbeat

Yeah, major immigration reform
makes hopeful headlines
but against deceit and false witness
by the copper-face mask of a body
sans Zucchetto or mitre of an even greater body
it is but momentary respite

Ah Congress
militancy beyond obstruction
NO YOU CAN'T and I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE

Please

Such cowardly grade school tantrums are dead as the Dodo bird
and it's only a matter of time before
the archaeologists a of Reason and Rationale
will unearth your inevitable burial
to reside alongside the other archival heaps
of sludge once delusional power and greed

I don't know

but…

Perhaps a Law of Nature alert
needs to be twittered
to wish-bone hopefuls
before their arteries of life
totally implode with such
Muffin-Top Mindset