I have been maddened and disappointed in the race to gerrymandering fought by racing to more gerrymandering. Wile this may seem shrewd to sum, I see this tempt to make the nation “equally unfair” everywhere as a way of securing overall fairness as a desperate surrendering of the means to fairness itself. I suspect that the overall lessen that will be learned in the body politic is that raw power is everything and winning is the only thing that madders. Raw power is the means to our end. Winning a contest with no standards is mirrorly gladiatorial sociopathy. I hope that we can do better; then agin, perhaps not…
Gerrymandered Square
Race times
Party
Is posed to equal
Gerrymandered squared
Beyond courting US
Axing US
To put our heads in the clouds
And imagine the shape of democracy
“Snake on the lake”
“Goofy kicking Donald Duck”
“Earmuffs”
“Slithering salamander”
From the brayin’s of psychotics
Politicians picking their voters’
Pockets
Of partisanship
Be our guessed
Weather red and blue
We the people
Are in surreal shape
Fair is as missed
In the sky
Out of reach
Wile in the dirt
Farmerly reasonable people
Soully grow more bazaar
Full of buy US
Mythical caricatures
O sow sketchy
From the mine’s of squirts
Only too be hung
On the refrigerator
Of our body politic
Sometimes life calls for convictions…
A paid protester
“Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.” ― Thomas Paine
