The Political Heckler

Whether he crab-walks around
    crowded caucuses
or barges into partisan
    conferences,
he's impervious to rank,
    menacing as a lance
with his irreverent, working-class
    nonchalance.

Flaunting his right and his might
    as a taxpayer,
he glares in the eye at senators
    at the foyer,
telling them if much-privileged
    idiots could fly,
Congress would be an airport
    from on high.

Really not much of a preamble
    kind of dude,
he calls politicians boorish,
    slovenly and crude
who look and act stupid because
    they really are;
that's how regular he goes straight
    for the jugular!
Copyright © | Year Posted 2008

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Shango Avatar
January 13, 2011 at 2:40 PM
Not just an activist poem, but a class write.
Naces Avatar
May 10, 2019 at 2:36 AM
Thanks, L'nass.
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