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by John Shearer

"Book of Sections"
(Political Pasta)

And we are racked with all the political scabs
Running around out of control as
Scenes of the New York cabs,
Is there no sound direction?
No means of correction?
Is there no iron clad or fortified protection?
Only more ignorant promises
And rabid bitten rejection,
Is it scrap time in the salvage yard?
Is it too hard the change the card?
Or too late to replace the guard?

Fixed documents and well staged statements,
Dark justice and fractured rules
With all these disillusioned tools
And the power plant cools,
Living in a judicial bent
Thrown into a legislative incident,
Shakers and bakers, fakers and takers
And from the blown zone comes
The law makers,
As we wait like robots on call
All the blind politicians gather
Down at town hall
Where rules of the road
And laws govern the load,
No directions, no corrections,
Only the unending idiot elections
Here stands the journals and
Chronicles as we live in this
Book of sections..

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