Election Day

Microphone minstrels
Banter empty promises
Strange voices coming
From faceless people

Mouths are moving
But saying nothing
Verbal masturbation
Stars and striped “jimmies”
Flag pole erections
Going limp
At screams of poverty

Political speeches
Full of saccharine words

With estrogen dreams
Armchair intellectuals
Soft-spoken revolutionaries
Pretend to lead
Speaking what they
Don’t know

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