Wide World of Sports televises a political assassination
from San Marcos, a tiny Latin American nation.
When the president dies, a dictator comes into position.
He takes complete control, and wants to subdue opposition.
Introducing Fielding Mellish: a product tester from New York.
This guy is sex-starved, and a completely nerdish dork.
Along comes a political activist who catches his fancy.
Wanting Fielding to sign her petition, her name is Nancy.
Mellish falls in love, and a relationship ensues.
Nancy changes her plans, and poor Fielding will lose.
Mellish decides to travel to that Latin American country.
There will be so many ridiculous situations we will see.
Are you curious to learn how this story will turn out?
Watch the video. You will find it entertaining without a doubt.
Based on the 1971 film "Bananas" starring Woody Allen
Too filled with psycho babble
sounds of the rabble
in the political world,
the mind swirls through din
that leaves no enlightenment,
only the spin.
Enough of the lightbulb grins
that switch in glib sound bites
to a frown that televises ... obfuscate.
Questions unanswered
to the depleted emcee
who is there only to obscure
with his own vapid view.
Saturated with the fawning
plastic faces standing in a row
behind microphones
as if in amplification
there words may contain
greater significance.
There are no great orators here.
There are no future leaders,
only more tabloid fodder to cheer
with other vacuous heroes of our day.
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