Short Mayors Poems

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   October 28, 2020
In a Few Words Contest 
  Sponsor: Joseph May...

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The sun, drab green
  The moon too quiet
Earth's cities wept
  Looting and riots

Mayors postured, spoke
  Their message 'woke'
The sun raced away
  Moon's light gone gray...

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Do you know how many lives you have changed, 
how many lives you’ve completely rearranged?

You two are miracle workers,
Without you, we would be berserkers.

You are lifesavers,
Come on now, you could be mayors....

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The mayor wakes us up at six
to tell us we're to noise
What garbage trucks and City Shmucks
are paid to be as toys

To keep us all from sleeping well
and get us angry for it
And make our neighbor think it's Hell
and swear at us just for it

To tell us all we don't deserve
the better part of life
When silence lets us sleep in peace
and mayors know to stife...

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Wee Willie Winkie ran through the town,
upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown.
The ladies were aghast at what was on display; 
they went into a tizzy, which caused some disarray.
Complaints were made to Burghers, Mayors, one and all;
(in truth, though, Wee Willie was a little small).
But rules are rules, and rude is rude;
so Willie’s now in jail; for being rather crude!...

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Rondelet: Democracy

"I'm fed up with democracy. In a democracy, people vote for the mayors. I wanted to build a city where I will choose the citizens." Emir (Nemanja) Kusturica, director and scriptwriter (with David Atkins) of the masterpiece: Arizona Dream (1993).

Democracy
One vote cast is carte blanche cast out
Democracy
Feeds small men constituency
The one-vote majority clout
Enough to send tough troops all out
Democracy

(c) T. Wignesan - Paris, 2012...

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