Party Games
What are the odds that either Democratic or Republican leaders
will ever again remember how to host
a health and wellness party?
Imagine these invitations we receive:
Dear Ms. Democrat,
Dear Mr. Republican,
Please come to our Leadership Party,
to primarily listen
as we rant and rave
about why we defensively avoid singing
and dancing
with any of those Other immoral
and probably illegal
masquerade parties
And how to avoid asking weak
and stupid compassion questions,
hypnotized by lust
for crappy binge-party mistrust
replaying blindman's monopolistic bluff
Fear mongering
anger aggravating
disempowering games
not appropriate for children
or mature adult
wellness sung
and healthy dancing
peace-pipe parties.
Sitting down,
or even staggered standing,
to fired-up hear
the Furor unfreely speak
His eco-womanist hate
is not my idea of recreation
or creative expression
or engaging entertainment
much less an improvement
over nonviolently communicating Charades
and compassionately pleasuring
flash-mob Masquerades
All parties re-presented
wherein at least I might choose to listen
through all our less than excellent
karaoke resolutions:
not this feeling
not that appealing
not now repeating
not later revealing
not judgy disclaiming
why it is not OK
to party more healthy enlightenment songs
and wealthy empowering dances
at passion and pleasure
polyculturing parties.
Perhaps we could skip
depressing alcoholic punches,
try some organic THC
religiously discipling
less paranoid
sing unto win/win nonOtherers
and don't dance against Others'
multiculturing golden rainbow
shower party rules
About what to freely and responsibly say
and not to unfreely and irresponsibly do
while playing political and economic
Earth-logical sanctuary charades
Launching both-and biparty unwar-ships
where either-or irreligious anthro-worship leaders
had been the only real dance stage
we must win
so they must lose
0-sum strategic advantage
for monopoly winning
far less than golden anniversary
resilient expand-theistic party outcomes.
I’m deep-bone tired of competitive
repetitive Musical Chairs
and Pin the Tail of ugly irresponsibility
on the Other party’s butt
of unpleasantly dispassionate
unparty deaf and dumb
AnthroMind v EarthBody
passion v pleasure
apartheid unparty
disassociation.
Decent political parties don’t play
Spin the Porky Kill-The-Planet Bottle
all night
behind smoke-filled
self-engorging
coven convention craven doors.
I would rather stay home
and continue losing Solitaire,
but thanks so much for not thinking of me
or my chronically anxious family
when you are designing your hate-binge
alcohol-fuming non-party
Rearranging your Masquerade Party furnishings
pretending to pay ecofeminists back
for your Manifestive monotheistic mortgage
while sending our kids
to anthro-supremacist private party schools
teaching all those unhealthy
real estate
Business As ClosedParty Gates Usual
Monopoly war-party answers
to peace co-passionate questions
no apartisan party is curiously asking.
No thanks for crappy initiation party favors
and invitations to crashdump that Other Party
rather than enjoy a more cooperative civil right
to party hearty healthy happy
swimming together in one EarthHealing pool
not flying apart
with everyone throwing darts
at Othered uninvited guests
and demonic hosts
whacking at sacred Earth
like an overstuffed piñata.
What are the constitutional odds
and moral ends
that either Democratic or Republican
good-faith
wellness-humored disciples
will ever again curiously re-member
how to re-ligiously win/win host
a Green EarthMother empowering
FatherSun enlightened
bipartisan PeacePipe Party?
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2016
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