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Another Suitcase
Another grand speech in a boring town hall
Won’t solve the world’s problems today
We’ve grown too enamored of media brawls
And corruption inside the beltway
Another news pollster committing his fraud
He convinced me to love what I hate
But I’ve learned that our media is just a facade
For elites in control of the state
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now? Do you care?
I’ve come to care more that his government falls
Than I did for our doomed love affair
Call me in three months, and I’ll be fine
After Hill’ throws her hat in the ring
When I'll drink all the Kool-Aid that I’ve been assigned
Cowering under an angel’s left wing
Won’t solve the world’s problems today
We’ve grown too enamored of media brawls
And corruption inside the beltway
Another news pollster committing his fraud
He convinced me to love what I hate
But I’ve learned that our media is just a facade
For elites in control of the state
Another suitcase in another hall
So what happens now? Do you care?
I’ve come to care more that his government falls
Than I did for our doomed love affair
Call me in three months, and I’ll be fine
After Hill’ throws her hat in the ring
When I'll drink all the Kool-Aid that I’ve been assigned
Cowering under an angel’s left wing
Published 29th Sep 2019
| Edited 22nd Jun 2023
Author's Note
Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Weber, Tim Rice, and Charles Bukowski
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Anonymous
30th Sep 2019 11:54pm
An interesting look into the current state of society. I like the use of the suitcase as an authoritarian image, holding the balance of government a long with people’s lives.
Thank you for sharing.
-M
Thank you for sharing.
-M
2nd Oct 2019 00:57am
Charles Bukowski... Now there's one that takes me back. Your poem reminds me of a curtain call. So controlled and anticipatory on one side, chaotic and willful on the other.
3rd Oct 2019 2:09am
Thank you for the comment, quite apropos for something inspired, in part, from Evita.
I can tell you're about as fed up with the politics as I am... Heh. Thanks for sharing this with us, Reggie :)
