Political Poetry

"Trying to put food on your family." 

For some reason this absurd Bushism 

Popped into my head today

And I was reminded of how long we lived like that

Subjected to the inane babblings

Of the (unfortunately for us)

"Leader of the free world." 

Its kind of amazing 

Years of "heh heh"s and ersatz cowboy posturing 

The occasional hilarity 

Always overcome 

By the cringeworthy ridiculousness  

And the realization that 

He was (unfortunately for everyone)
our representative to the world. 

They weren't dangerous per se

These ridiculous utterances

"We will be greeted as liberators"

To name but one example of others

Infinitely more destructive 

So I shouldn't be too hard on him

And I know it's long in the past by now...

Just that it somehow occurred to me
And like certain yoooooooge pronouncements 

From today's political figures 

Those sayings do have a certain poetry to them

For better or for worse
They belong to us; we can't escape them 

They have become our poetry

The poetry of the damned.