THE PITCH

Close the curtain
and pull the lever
prepare for the sham,
we vote for a voice,
we vote for a choice,
with no counting
of woman or man,
fake the revelry,
hollow, the pitch,
country in ditch,
classic bait and switch,

dangle the eye candy,
magician's slight of man,
for every ill an elixir
in this maddening caravan,

sell
felled ballons and confetti
on the weak and the petty
hard to believe it's not planned,
information in demand,
wretched is the hand
Stretched for the Fatherland.