Upside-Down In Politics

Strange things happen in politics We cannot trust the polls Life has its own dirty tricks We can play divers roles This is not business as usual Always fight to save one's soul. Things are upended in politics Ignore the belligerent critiques Everything happens in a season For an un-intelligible reason Nobody can predict the results Of an election filled with insults. Politics in many countries are very dirty We all can see why. Politics are slushy Voters lie. They mislead the pollsters Who behave like palm readers Like inexperienced magicians So they can foul the naïve audience. Things are pell-mell in politics Life has its own yucky tricks Everything occurs for an obscure reason Under the lights of an unusual horizon No anchors can predict the results Of an election filled with assaults. Copyright © November, 2016 Logerie Hébert, All Rights Reserved Hebert Logerie is the author of several collections of poetry.