This is the milking season
when Machiavellians
hold out dry titties
with more promises
of milk and money.
This is the mating season
when political miscreants
commit necrophilia
and, with necromancy,
romance dead ethnic consciences.
This is the witching season
when power-lust witches and warlocks
invoke sycophant sympathies
and subtle, subliminal,
subterranean prejudice
in this political catacomb.
This is the magic season
when walking Merlins and Houdinis
advertise and mesmerize the masses
into a mental morass
of amnesia for another five years
of disappearance in tinted Benzes.
This is the silly season
when hugging and kissing jackasses
lift up and embrace little babies
while telling large lies
with straight faces.
This is selection season
when merchants, mercenaries, mendicants,
maniacs, morons, monsters and monks
rant and rend, rend and rant,
rant and rave, rave and rant,
presiding over unholy masses,
preaching from political pulpits
on portable potty soapboxes,
shouting, “Vote for we! Vote for me!”
Copyright ©2001 by G. Newton V. Chance
- G. NEWTON V. CHANCE
- George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
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