Short Incumbents Poems

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

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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 tricks tradition....

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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 Guevara, Spartakists, 
the Mau Mau, Mata Hari,
the Contras, Carbonari, 
Hamas, Harmonious Fists.

The song that stops the show?
“It Ain’t Necessarily So”....

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AFTERTASTE OF POWER

Power tastes like food 
Intoxicates like spirit 
Transient on the tongue 
To good and bad incumbents 
It's just awhile on the throne .
Aftertaste may be sweet 
If not, it'll definitely be bitter 
To many past kings
 It's bittersweet 
It all depends 
Now I ring the bell 
That to every eater 
That's those in power 
Aftertaste is sure 
The end is real
As eggs is eggs 
Ex will be word.

Tunde Dawood-Akerele
18th May, 2020...

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