Hillary Proves More Poets Fewer Politicians Especially Dishonest Ones

Campaign in Prose, Govern In Poetry

She may spin it or hide behind her phony cackle-like laugh but the bloom is gone from the Hillary rose

You know there is trouble brewing by the first question a millennial at the town meeting posed

 All about that so many millennials feel she is dishonest and deceptive, about as transparent as a sheet of lead

No wonder more and more voters, worried that she may be crushed in the general or indicted, prefer Bernie Sanders instead

Instead of admitting there is a real concern she sloughed it off as if it did not exist

Any admission on putting classified information on her server as wrong she continues to resist

Yale Law School training in the game of words dies very hard

Admission from her or Bill of wrong doing is missing from her deck of cards

Already the dogs of indictment are howling from the Reds and  also from they the kennels of the FBI

Hundreds of classified emails with classified markings stripped including the crown jewels, SAPS

The public and the FBI will not fall into her ignore the content look at  the no markings trap

The scandal over classified material on her server is but the iceberg tip

The more real problem for her is her boarding corporations and governments for the quid pro trip

Bill may be a great speaker and the Clinton Foundation may do some good work

But the millions in speaking fees and the tens of millions in donations is not a coincidence quirk

Foreign governments and corporations with business before her Department of State

Must have been dancing in the streets that she was quick to take the quid pro quo bait

The private server had nothing to do with convenience but rather to the quid pro quos conceal

So she, for the Foundation to receive millions and  for Bill to millions collect, could wheel and deal

The Clintons have certainly progressed from their days of putting the Lincoln Bedroom on one night sales

One could not begin to imagine from Wall Street and cronies the amount of money she will receive, with high rates of favor interest, on the campaign trail.

At that same town meeting she used another 2008 campaign line to prove she could the Congress unite

You campaign with poetry but govern with prose ignoring that’s why the number and complexity of regulations and growing out of sight

Hillary had it wrong the order should be reversed

If more politicians instead of mouthing campaign slogans knew the power of verse

And more poets knew politics and how tempting for politicians like Hillary to fall from grace,

For JFK was right when he opined “the world would be a better place.”

As a poet immersed in similes and metaphors ready to open the gates of humanity’s souls

To enable their pointed fingers to touch the heavens and feel spirituality and peace as a poet’s goal

I am sickened to see her try to blame the divisions on the talents of the muse

To somehow dismiss the blame, demonize and deny tactics she is so quick to use

To paraphrase her campaign poem “No foundation is too big or corrupt too fail

And no candidate for president is too powerful or dishonest to jail.”

© January 28, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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