ElectioneeringA Poem by Benjamin NorwayCommentary on the latest election and the political systemElectioneering 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…
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1 Review Added on November 11, 2016 Last Updated on November 11, 2016 Tags: poetry, political, 2016 election AuthorBenjamin NorwayFarmington, UTAboutI am a high school and college English teacher - Husband/Father of three/published children's book author. more..Writing
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