So It Goes

[image from slinkingtowardretirement.com]

for the Real Toads prompt:

I see him on the news.

Much has been made

of this upstart politician's

visit to Bahrain.

But when he speaks

to the press,

he doesn't say a word

about Bahrain.

Only points out

his own excellence

at being there

when the current

prime minister

is not.

"I" plan to do this

and this

and this,

not like "Him",

who does not.

For "He" is a liar,

and the third political party

"cant do anything,"

but "I" can,

and will.

I immediately

discard him

as a prospect,

for his

self-aggrandizement,

his sniping

at the other parties,

his aggressive

pandering

for votes.

This all bespeaks

lack of honor

and truth to me.

Simple political

jockeying

for power, and

ambition for self,

rather than

the good

of the country.

It also promises

to provide

yet more fractured

and oppositional politics,

in which nothing good

can happen,

because everyone

is too busy

fighting and scrapping

with each other.

The current government

is right-wing,

political fat cats,

also in it
for power and profit,

great at

skimming off

the gravy.
They use the same
party-speak:
"He" isnt here
for the people,
"He" will tax more.
Blah blah blah.

Tonight's news
involves
a government
cover-up.
Apparently
the current government
has not been
transparent,
has been
suppressing
information
from the taxpayers.

Oh la!
Quel surprise!

The third choice

might actually

do some good,

but support is

now so divided,

it would be
impossible

to vote them
in.

So it goes,

decade
after decade,

the faces change,

but

necessary Change
on the ground

does not.
When money
and power
are the stakes,
apparently
no one
is immune
to abandoning
their lofty
pre-election
philanthropic
principles.

Argh.