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Sep 2014
Americans seem to be running out of places to hide their shame
Stacked in cabinets with Tea *** domes,
We dare not look to the social powerhouse so saturated with
Plastic bottles and foreign oil.
We ignore Monroe’s silk bed sheets laced with self-righteous politics
“P-o-l-i-t-i-c-s
Poly defining many
Tics meaning blood ******* parasites” He’d say.

As you may or may not know, all American shame has never looked so bad.
Stored in Hoover’s lies
As Watergate pries,
Shame makes a man thrice times a cheater and a pompous wife beater who struts in sheer bravado
B-r-a-v-a-d-o
“A bold manner or a façade of boldness intended to impress or intimidate.”

Now it may sound cliché, but my English teacher taught me that word.
And frankly that’s the only thing I’ve learned all year
Because those 7 letters funnel the political machine into a single, sorry nutshell.

We vote for ******* racists
And conservative sadists
No Mr. Speaker,
We can’t build on the moon
We’re too busy changing diapers
And loosing fighters in a fake war on fake terror
And if you indeed sir hide your own shame,
How can you judge ours?

Political embarrassment has left a mountain of mistrust between
What is right.
And who is real.

Adulterers paint shame on faces of first wives,
Standing behind husbands
Lost in Lewenski scandals and Lindbergh cries,
Stained red.

…….the most human color.


Power makes man shameless
And reckless with senseless charm

There's no sense In having less
Truth
Poise
Or integrity
Just because one rides in a private jet
With private lives
And private strippers
Are just.....well are.... finer.


Selling senate seats
With conceited pleas of insanity,
The nation that rules the world
Provokes an Ill advised excess of trouble
And strain

Uncle Sam is a ******* character policing the world
With wondering eyes and an attitude
At the cost of all

Dear Mr. President,
Grow a pair,
Hold your own and
Speak
With
Conviction

They are looking for mistakes to blame.
Defeat
Corruption
And all American shame
Jocelyn Robinson
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