While I'm on the Topic...

a poem i wrote:

7 Ways of Looking at a Politician
after W. Stevens and R. Patterson
1. i saw a snake
slither across the road. it must have
been a politician.

2. late at night, while
Justice slumbers,
I’ve seen politicians
play
God
with lives of the
innocent.

3. even Pontius Pilate
washed his hands of the
innocent
for the sake of the
mob. so too do politicians.

4. to have never seen a
nefarious soul
is to have never
met a politician.

5. if you’ve ever made a
shady deal
for the sake of
progress,
then you too have become a
politician.

6. tea kettles boil over
and
scream like a
politician’ s
lover
at the height of their
climax during
adulterous
intercourse.

7. children grow up wishing
to be
President,
and
change the world. little
do they know…
even the
President
is a politician.

S. Gray