Straw Man, the 2012 Presidential Campaign

......a strange color, green Become better informed, listen to your teachers, educate yourself....which branch will the bluejay survey from? The hawk, circling, choose his best option? Bleeding soldiers depend on doctors, rich men depend on accountants, souls depend on preachers, tap water depends on scientists and engineers, nourishing the parched vagaries of citizens and houseplants. Words fall like acid-rain, seemingly harmless, we thought we understood rain, it falls, it nourishes, fills our reservoirs....then leaves a stain, a clear outline of abuse, like evaporated salt, clinging to our shirts after a hard day, sound bite upon bite. Still, we wade through flooded streets, hoping the tides will descend, rhetoric return to sanity, our lives safe, from future floods. after the elephants parade through every mind the straw left behind collects promises dumped in the streets polled, polished,perfumed ready to sweep it all up on election day hit pause... wait four years repeat wait four years repeat 09/08/12 6:09 pm