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What goes into 
caucus and committee
and what comes out 
      of caucus and committee

what dialogue travels 
the halls of Congress
and what dialogue is absent 
      from those consecrated halls

what is debated on 
the floor stays on the floor
and what rises to the ceiling 
      stays on the ceiling

a high wire act in a circus of clowns and puppets
trip over each other to raise money for themselves

what elevates the heavy 
gavel of procedure
and what brings that mighty 
        wooden gavel down

who is written out of trade 
partnership agreements
and who is written into trade
         partnership agreements

what is left out of 
national security legislation 
and what is written
         into security legislation

it has the shape and style and sound and appearance
of democracy but some fingers and toes are missing

cloaked in rhetoric 
and petulant rant representatives
buzz from one special interest 
         flower to the other

pushing debased agendas 
and empty proposals with impunity
unaware that every single meeting 
         and motion and voice

is attached to the life of 
a determined and diligent citizen
dependent upon their 
         conscientiousness and empathy

clichés and bromides shift fast between nattering teeth
ranks close in and capacity for clear hearing thins out

tabloids and blogs are 
the prime sources of knowledge
and gravitas is a slow steamboat 
         on the Mississippi

commentators and pundits 
flap thick wicked tongues
giving lip service to Constitutional 
         principles and purpose

all thriving in a happy 
broadband land where drones 
drop bombs far away as 
         we sleep in peace and comfort

turn up the Wi-Fi 
have another pitcher of brew

no need to ponder the wretched 
who make it possible 
for all of us
to live

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