Best Gung Poems

The newest student in class
   The just-hired employee
The representative-elect
   The groom and bride-to-be

All of them enthusiastic
   All of them gung-ho
Within a few months or so
   Where does that spirit go?...

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Gung Ho machismo pushed to limits of puerile pomposity
Thrives in a world of alternative reality
But falls flat on its garrulous verbosity
Especially if hitched on the back of alacrity teeming with banality 

Whose preference for megaphone diplomacy
Indicates an Achilles heel
In strategy whose lunacy
Cuts off the oxygen...

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