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In the Land of Elephant Dreams

THE FALL OF THE WHITE ELEPHANT’S CAN’T FAIL IDEA

No self-respecting politician wanted to drink from that well
the self-inflicted delusion persisted for the faithful
they were shocked but not surprise when they learned
the head elephant had walked away with much cash

But his larcenous ways landed him in prison

Money, something very dear to his black heart,
or where his heart should have been,
felt good; he didn’t need the cash, he had said
he was wealthy and his multitudes believed his every lie

On and on he talked, the media checked his words 
but to no avail nobody believed the lies the media reported
since they trusted their leader, no one questioned him,
lying became a part of his steady rhetoric and he escalated it
 
Until the day his forty thousand obvious lies were too much 
and he lost the election by ten million votes 
and true to his character he did not leave with dignity
he left violently

Not a word was heard throughout the broken party called the GOP
even they forgave him for absconding with much money
but the opposition had done its job of throwing the corrupt out 
he and he was gone back to con-scam land where he had come from 

But the gullible sycophants naively incapable of learning history's lessons
without critical analysis of what had brought down their party
immediately began searching for the one who could finesse the lies
their motto became "Stay True to the Big Lie" or "Ignorance is good"

The blind faithful obeyed his misguided verbal bellows
to vilify, discredit, attack and continue his false self-righteous ways
to obstruct the law that was in hot pursuit 
the news that he was to be punished comforted the American citizen

But on and on they go lying and denying to this day
what the rest of the world knows to be true
but the demolished idea of establishing the next Fourth Reich
died when the cell door slammed shut  

This land that's always searching for ways to perfect the imperfect law,
assist our sacred Constitution to forge forward 
always seeking to instruct on freedom, liberty, justice 
and improving those citizens' minds imbued with incalculable stupidity.

Copyright © Norberto Franco Cisneros | Year Posted 2016

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