Electioneering

Electioneering

A Poem by Benjamin Norway
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Commentary on the latest election and the political system

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Electioneering

 

Somewhere in the mind of America is the simmering consciousness of legislative morality… where the politicians and rhetoricians are more than magical magicians

 

I see you America, with your brains spinning and your eyes rolling

Fingers wagging in blame game naming and shaming

 

Hypocrisy is your middle name in misled Middle America where the Middle Class is lost in the shuffle of meddling rhetoric spewed by mewed misanthropic women and men in new pants and suits and suitpants

 

I see you looking out to the horizon, heading for the future and looking for the past on a TV screen where extreme left and extreme right don’t battle for Middle America…

 

�" where Americans meet in the middle and talk sense to each other �"

 

…they battle for radical ideologies that alienate the middle and satisfy the fringe who binge on the ‘beautiful’ chaos of the moment and the month and the electioneering year

 

Stump speeches, primaries, media polls, emails, and end goals �" what does it mean?

 

Was it Goethe who told us to “speak a few reasonable words” every day? Do we hear them? When America takes his advice it may be too late �" It is too late �" Is it too late? Too late to satiate and placate the masses of Middle America?

Electioneering in an election year; engineering for a future too near…

© 2016 Benjamin Norway


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Very bold and straightforward. I like it. I myself write a lot of political stuff. Poems/lyrics. Swing by and checke out. Really appreciate it. Any how, I know with the previous election and everything. The majority has a lot of mind to speak about it. All I've got to say is write your heart out.

Posted 7 Years Ago



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Benjamin Norway
Benjamin Norway

Farmington, UT



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I am a high school and college English teacher - Husband/Father of three/published children's book author. more..

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