Thursday, January 26, 2023

Poem of the Day 01.26.23

the politicians at the street festival

sit
in booths

between fried oreo stands
bounce houses
and people selling plastic figurines

they sit and smile
and are impervious to sun and rain

to the ten bands on the street
all playing shitty beatles covers at once

they look like
they’re made of wax

dumb smiles all around

that one is pro-choice
that one is pro-life

this one has a banner
that says love is love is love

but doesn’t really say anything at all

they sit there
at their cluttered tables
with flags and stacks of papers before them

the politicians at the street festival

papers full of all of the items
they stand for or are against

more trees have died for their agendas
than one could hazard to count

and they would be
the biggest idiots here

if it weren’t for all of the people walking around

eating hot dogs
and fried dough

all of the clueless citizens who voted
these grinning hucksters into office

in the first
goddamned place.




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