Monday, February 4, 2008
No Politics Today
It is warm,
and the snow is melting,
evaporating into the
soil to make mud,
and into the air to
make a dense Japanese fog.
No politics today,
though the fog is
appropriate for tomorrow,
Super Tuesday, they call it,
when we'll get one step
closer to clarifying who
will be our new leader.
As we walk through the fog,
profound shifting occurs.
What was clear becomes obscured,
and what was lost in the fog
becomes crystal clear.
The candidates madly become
something for everyone,
hoping to entice one sector after
another to vote for them.
I'm not sharing their ambitions.
It doesn't sound like my
cup of tea.
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