The barker is on the street
Do you believe in Democracy?
Then vote for Humphries!
Year after year, same guy, new name
we pass him
“…all lies anyway…” we think
then walk past again, and again
This is how she’ll save the neighborhood!
as we, again, cynically blow him off
knowing things are not that bad
and what is
will not be fixed by
…this true American, good and honest.
After enough years
those men and women on the corner
become fewer and fewer
more and more of a nuissance, a bother
an annoyance that
slows our walk home to
our food, our couch, our television, our comforts
but we still complain
because we are entirely distrustful
angry with negligent passion
wondering
why the capitalism we revere
refuses to be
the democracy we wish it would be
af
(written in little notebook, getting the fire going again)
This is awesome!
Thanks, dude!!! I was watching this guy on the corner and noticed how everyone was so annoyed by him and, well, you know me and politics…haha