President's Puppets

The upcoming race from my perspective

 painful patience pervades.

political power-mongers 

spar for paltry political points,

assault with exhausted 

sag-armed punches.

mix mean measures

titillating truth and

dabs of ruthless, 

usually useless, to

create campaign 

half-fact creatures

wresting wretched

misinformed allegiance 

from subculture groups.

 

our collective conscience

must by its nature

tend to middle ground...

a waving, tottering, 

media-tweaked

bell curve struck

by extreme notions

with resounding clangs

intending to move the center.

have little success 

as long as 

our three-headed government 

has balanced power

to retard and absorb extremes

... as the originators intended.

 

without opposition 

extremism rears 

it’s ugly head.

control is censored.

fiction becomes truth.

direction is subject to

random meanderings.

with arrogance, wealth, 

power hunger, greed, 

ambition, and showmanship

in common,

you’d think good buddies

could join hands as

they spar to be the puppet master,

the controller,

the decision maker,

to wrest resources from the wretched,

to appease the unappeasable

powerless masses of poor.

but knowing no loss,

the president’s impotent puppets

dangle, dance and

wiggle wily wooden heads

while the media mind driven drivel 

tows the overly adorned 

and underly adored 

blasted band wagon 

in a powerful perilous parade 

through a pitiful repeated pattern

toward a notable November.

Reviews

[The Archangel Gabriel]

Here's to November! Great work! I hope that it helps to inspire people to vote in the November election. 2006 was very notable with so many upset people going to the polls and so much change in Congress. This country belongs in part to every American citizen.

It would have been nice if there had not been so much pain and suffering around the globe since 9/11.

-Gabe

[Legion]

Great GReat GREat GREAt GREAT! Alliteration. Love the whole political angle of this. Well done. If you get a chance, check out my poems "A Letter For King George" and "The Independent Nation". Once again, well done. Great write. Going in favorites.

[Emily B]

I hate the race. So little involved with issues and so much on money and ego. Brilliant write.

[Deborah Shepard]

Bravo , enjoyed this

[TL Boehm]

your wordsmithing is unmatched! I'm not political (because I get awfully ornery about lost causes) but my head was nodding as I read this...and for some reason it reminded me - just at the beginning of Ian Anderson lyrics...your story teller is showing.

[Helen Woodward]

LOL this is great Ed! I loved it, they should be in show business. Politicians are all aliens and must be destroyed! You and I will run the country...that could have some difficulty attached to it seeing we live in different countries! Hell, we'll do it alone, it has to be better than what we have now. The hugging babies thing really riles me and so do the parents who allow it. We are being led by fake people who have too much power and that is frightening in the extreme. They talk the biggest crock of bull and make promises they never keep...ever!
Grrrr this is a hobby horse of mine and I could keep rattling on. You have done yourself proud with this piece and isn't it satisfying to get it off your chest? They should all be transported to an island where they can bullshit each other to death, but then we would get fresh blood that would more likely than not be worse...answer? No idea! Leave God in charge...that is about it...
Helen :-)

[Siddartha Beth Pierce]

Excellent work - the style of writing in this piece is unique and compelling besides the overall message is timely and so True. Thank you for sharing.
Light,
Siddartha

[Mark]

This is quite a powerful and honest representation of "the race", indeed. Too many of us judge it for what it is on the surface, but if you peel back a layer or two, it becomes painfully clear just what is going on. The style in which this is written gives it a raw, "wake up people" sense of emotion as weel, which is quite effective. Well done.