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DISORDER REMAINS THE PROVERBIAL CONSTANT,

 

IN THIS HOUSE OF MENTAL SABOTAGE.

 

MURKY ADRENALINE REVS ITSELF UP,

 

SCORCHING TIRE MARKS DOWN THE CROOKED

 

PATH THAT LEADS TO POLITICAL ARREST (AND AQUITTAL).

 

ALL EYES ARE AVERTED,

 

MOUTHS SPEAK IN HUSHED TONES.

 

AS DRUNKEN, LUST-FILLED FINGERS

 

SIGN LAWS TO SEAL IN OUR FATE. 

Author notes

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ANY PRESIDENT IN PARTICULAR. JUST A GENERALIZATION OF ALL POLITICIANS.

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  • storiesuntold gold member
    February 5, 2008

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    Keep the people broke to keep control

    Its so sad the direction this government has left us today . Cant afford insurance for our paychecks barly gives us enough to pay the bills and sometimes not enough at all . How do they expect us to get better training when they leave us out and give all the benefits and loans to the imigrants and I am not speaking of just one kind I am speaking for all and the people who are on welfare that is truly able to work and wont today .The field workers get their health their dental even their gas paid and who can say they work any harder than the rest of us . They say we wouldnt take those jobs .If they gave us the same benefits sure we would but we would be clasified differently therefore we would have to make it on our own . I say let everyone make it on their own and get this world fair as it once was


  • Emm Jayy
    February 4, 2008
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    Really good write here... the capitals made it seem like a protest song more than a political poem. Lots of emotion. Well done and good luck in my contest!


    • Celinda Luna
      February 4, 2008
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      Thanks

      First of all, cool name!

      I never thought of it as a protest song but with a few examples (i.e. Watergate, Monica Lewinsky) it could be a song.

      Thanks for your comments!

  • Yvette Champ gold member
    October 4, 2007
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    The title is a clear introduction.The presentation in all upper case letters is acceptable to me but some poets feel that it denotes shouting.I would perhaps suggest the shocked face emoticon is unnecessary as the words themselves express the shocking reality.Emotion keenly felt throughout this political poem.