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Smells Like Government



Rancid lemon rope squeeze
around a rotten tomato neck tie,
crooked odor bow hanging out of place 
Acid reflux raisin tax bleed;
dripping spoiled, milquetoast lies
out a sour-twisted, prune puckered face

Tart tongue 
sulfur speak disorderly,
dirty saliva fingers in the propaganda pie
Such a bowel movement disgrace
Bottom rung
bung opening vault key
Onion groans  ...  chittering fermented cry
Boot-licking patent leather taste

Smells like government to me,
corrupt as can be
Dung pile of voter promises,
sits atop a pungent idol landfill heap,
swarming with stinking lip flies
Smells just like reeking government gluttony — 
O beast behavior ... 
swine odor, foul as can be

Swindle spit vapors perfidiously wafting,
kindle the vomit pit
Sewage waste material ash labors fanning,
can you stand the stench of it?

Smells like dead paper figurehead
government to me
Bait-and-switch fishy business ... 
close your eyes,
what does your nose see?

Tainted meat polltry speech,
pluck the purse feathers
off the cable perched pigeon bodies

Smells like government
is about to make a putrid, baked-in story
Made up facts ... maggot video feed

Stale, bureaucratic policy hard rolls 
warmed over twice
Buttered late with expired date lies
Served with a cloying cup
of steaming sound-byte coffee:
Substitute truth ... false sugary

Toilet swirl coffin cake,
gutter floss the oral cavity
Bad breath vows made,
garbage hope nobody needs

Government smells
like a morgue dog in heat
Very omit cadaver, obit disgusting

Smells like 
a pot of burning bones 
on a boil
Bottom lip scum
rising to the top
On a truthful breath: Let me tell you,
it stinks an awful lot

Smells like scurvy government to me,
corrupt as base bribery can be
The lobbyist rats are scarfing down
the moldy green government cheese,
so silver spoon tongue greedily

Nothing like some regurgitated split-pea pleas
to hit the decaying belly ballot gastric spot
Can you make a federal case
of this rank-and-foul flatulent republic rot?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018




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Date: 7/10/2018 12:54:00 PM
Hmmm, all I can say is that you are a wise man of truth. Someone had to say it all; thank you.
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Date: 7/9/2018 2:51:00 PM
Freddie, just taking a wild stab here but I'm guessing you do not agree with our current administration's policies. Had me laughing from start to finish:)
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Date: 7/9/2018 2:21:00 PM
You have a unique ability to express yourself fluently...government is a good monitor of what makes up the people...Nice write...All the best Freddie
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