Best Incumbents Poems

Washington in flux
Stimulus dollars squandered
Corporate big wigs laugh --
Ignorant approach rebuked
Voters cast out incumbents...

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you may try to make us feel inferior
strutting around with head held high and mighty
i wonder
is it for our sake
or just to cover up thy...

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The thorns-in-sides are various
which mar incumbents’ slumber.
Could Belgium bear Lumumba?
Would Britain brook Makarios?

There’s Bolsheviks or Mensheviks,
Parnell or De Valera:
Marat had Robespierre, or
the Romans, Vercingetorix.

There’s Che...

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"The Forgotten and Fluctuations of Awareness" 

When the crime 
was committed,
the writing 
was already on the wall,

no one listened. 
It climbed insidiously
out through the cracks
like...

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Bobby Stokes pined to be a politician.
He was bright, idealistic, full of ambition.
But in office he forgot
what he clearly should have not.
Incumbents heed a dirty...

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WinterBane 
WinterBane 
 
Soltive pre ordained priest warlike additives initially a Jesus Freak becoming cold 
hearted in the winter. Bane has come with hatred of...

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The Media Presentation
By Franklin Price
10/13/2016

The media presentation of the Clinton and the Trump
Has her as Wonder Woman and he as Forest Gump
Campaigning mostly negative, Republican...

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Free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with notes
[*like presidents and prime ministers of declining (falling or fallen) nations]

K381: padaikudi kuulamaiccu...

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A Citizen 
By Franklin Price
10/1/2016

A citizen who's silent
Who has a horn to toot
Who's words, if said, are  meaningful
Unsaid, are always moot

Citizens, without opinion
On the...

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Like ostriches, politicians bury their heads
While homeless, starving families go unfed
Voters see the game, know how it's played
Upheaval awaits on election day

Say what?  You're...

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Voting in November
By Franklin Price
6/16/2016

Voting in November
Is a very scary thing
Especially for the president 
What will either of them bring?

He is quite outspoken
To the point...

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I'm Really Quite Confused
By Franklin Price
6/18/2016

I'm really quite confused about our politics today,
And of the selfish things they do and all the games they play
Super...

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Hello the House and Senate
By Franklin Price
10/21/2016

Hello the House and Senate
Democrat, Republican
To all of you in Washington
Every elected woman, man

To incumbents in position
I would like...

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If
By Franklin Price
10/15/2016

If someone told you years ago
We'd be in the state we're in
If  they said it would be such a mess
To solve none...

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Political Correctiveness 
Republican Vs Democrat

Young man with a mind and a protestation unwinds.

Old man with bald head flying his sign .

There was almost a fight,...

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