Bad Company
"They should stop kissing babies
and write poetry."
He meant the politicians.
I nodded in agreement.
The idea appealed,
then I thought of all
the bad poetry in the world.
"Art lifts us above the base condition,
it inspires us beyond the personal."
His words seemed plausible,
until I recalled
that Hitler was an artist,
Mao and other dictators
wrote poetry.
I shuddered,
a man is judged by the company he keeps.
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