2 poems about thoughts and feelings post-election


About Electing Lies

Well
I am disappointed

So I guess
If I’m convicted of
Many crimes
And I’ve committed fraud
And broken promises
In marriage
And other relationships
So that
In fact
I break faith with everyone
And if I do not pay my bills
And if I want
To accuse people I’m afraid of
Of everything that isn’t
True

If I make a style
In fact
Of lying
And don’t pay my bills
And
By the way
I take everything that’s wrong with me
And say it is another’s
And not me
Though
It is

All I have to do
To get away with
All of it
Is to run for President
And get billionaires
To buy my way
For
Their own
Agendas

The same folk who
By the way
Won’t welcome
Me at
Table

Otherwise
It’s 17 June 1972
Another
Day the music died
And what we learned but that
We cannot
Trust the government
And should stay away from
All such things
And have
So much easier living
Through
Indifference


The Topsy-Turvy that Has No Playfulness in Topsy-Turvy

There are those
Who learn about the Holocaust
And take notes from
The evil side

So that the lie might be acknowledged
That some good things
Happened
Then
In Germany

Not
To say we can’t be academic
Though the filter must be moral
Or we are pursuing nothing
Human
Or has a place
On righteous Earth

We should be
Rhetorical
Understanding something of
Our honest discourse
With each other
And
We should study flaws in that
Tradition

You know
Straw people
Post hoc propter hoc
Gilding the lily
Though
Again
The point is not
To strategize to use the flaws
To dupe each other
Though
Some will
It’s
Sad to know

And one more thing
That should be
And that isn’t
Is that
Politics
Means good government
You know
The pursuit of by the people

And yet
Like taking notes
From the wrong side
And
Going for the
Discourse flaws

Not
To mention
Spewing accusations
In
A puerile attempt
To escape one’s
Own

The codes we could live by
Like good governance
And topsy-
Turvy
Fun on Ferris wheels

But good and evil upside-
Down to try
For ways to live
Simply act against
The deeper
And the shallower things we
Really know

Those presuming leadership who
Act against all virtue
And all wisdom
Though
Might
Try hollowly
Merely to use the worlds

Invite the citizenries
And
Congregations
To subscribe to indifference
To endure


C L Couch


(sorry should there be any ranting parts but not sorry for any easier-living-wisdom parts)

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