Elected Officials

People whom your votes produce And four or five succeeding years reduce: Not like wage earners their bosses might sack; Their tenures run out and they show us their back… At the outset, magical initiatives that wouldn’t confuse, At the finale a barrel-large hopeless excuse! Like potent drugs, movers of a system forward, Like expired ones, makers of things more awkward…; You indicate them as your choices, You simply hearken to their voices. A leadership style can your last dime grab; We have the economically brave but logistically drab: A whole purse flatly draining And you can just see that it’s badly raining. No dirty files of theirs that you can’t pick, Because all dirty files would at some point leak… Election periods remain a time to think, As some of these aspiring bundles stink.