The Politician
Has he kept his word?
Kept to promises you heard?
Are you satisfied? Let down?
Waiting to see what comes round?
These choices voiced, unvoiced
From voters of the officers new crowned.
To those who vote by rote or call
To those who vote at all:
Has he or she distorted vows
To overpower and devour:
Double thought through double-think?
Misconstruing and misstating,
Skewed with bias filled with hating.
Stinking skills to sell and buy,
To peddle lies which sink a country –
Even if potentially –
Are the aides, incomes denied,
Who stand to profit on the sly,
Men in masks, men in power
Hidden men, men of the hour,
How will tasks now basked in
At whose call flasks, casks are drunk from:
Will affairs of state be slunk from?
This a call to politician;
Call to listen;
He or she just person
In the end.
The Politician 2.28.2017
Our Times, Our Culture II;
Arlene Corwin
I guess this could be filed under 'all times, all cultures'
