Puking Politics

hits the stomach like a punch
nauseous throbs just under the diaphragm
choking bitter up through the throat and into the mouth

convulsions spewing out the days events
into the toilet of net

hard to laugh when your guts are in betrayal


the people who turned out to vote for Obama
stayed away from the polls the next year
the swing into severe depression in direct relation to the lost elation
basic theory of relativity -- it has no shame

beaten back again
put in our place
told -- elections were always a parlor trick of lies
and anyone who thinks differently needed a lesson in politics anyways

we never learn of our defeat
we are told the war never ended
that we have elected a class of warriors to battle for us in the halls of congress

Machiavellian misanthropes by nature and mission
prowl halls of power

they debate the greenhouse as if we can stop it

as if we had the political will to force the oil barons to move their money elsewhere

i learned in astronomy 101 in toledo ohio in 1986 that once the greenhouse starts
it is self-perpetuating... doesn't need us anymore to create a completely acid environment on earth

maybe some miracle of innovation will save us... the million and one shot...
some scratch off lotto ticket that tells us we have won a God


i did not used to feel responsible
i grew up seeing the decay and felt like the world's fate was sealed long before I arrived