The Absolute Absurdity

Goes easily unquestioned

Of any election scenario

Whether it be for student council

Sheriff, dog catcher, judge

Representative, senator, clerk of the recorder

President “The most powerful man in the world”*



Or the one that gets me every time

Is coroner. What? How am I possibly supposed

To be qualified to select a person whose

Job it is to oversee the lives of dead people?




Because none of it is based

On merit, qualifications, or skill

Merely popularity, name recognition from

Billboards, yard signs, bumper stickers

Mailers, flyers, on cute colorful cardboard

Effort, money, and time to become known

Promises do not need to be kept

Facts matter not for those

Not paying any discerning attention

Save cursory surface satisfaction

That the well-intentioned promise

Was either that or the opposition

Forces were too difficult to overcome

Making it “other’s” fault it did not occur

“Can’t” possibly mean that it was stated

Emphatically, “just” to get elected…. Ooopsie



So, the game goes on and on

The cliché recycles, this next election

Will be the most important election of your life

Hmmmm, based on the frivolity of facts

The inconsistencies of erroneous information

The desperate desire for devious democracy

In the gambler’s hope, the outcome will

Change one’s life immediately for the good

Sadly, nothing will change except the

Names and faces of the “democratically” elected



Which is oddly all fine and dandy since each day

Regardless of external circumstances, one can

Still be kind, helpful, generous, sharing, smile

Take care of immediate family, then extended, to

People you barely know, strangers, acquaintances

Knowing we are all in this together as one

Regardless of who is allegedly running the circus



“Be it the Devil or be it him
You can count on just one thing

When the time is up you’ll know
Not just one power runs the show”

“Fate’s Warning”

– Iron Maiden


When the best options are between

Dumb and dumber

Older and oldest

Criminal and war criminal

One can only wonder why

Apathy runs rampant


“Working people have been fucked over so long in this country, those are the kind of decisions they’re left to make.”

– George Carlin



The best and the brightest

Are not going to run for office

They are too smart and have

Too many morals and standards

To be compromised so quickly



“I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most.

The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”


– Bill Hicks



* Could we collectively stop this ruse

“The most powerful man in the world”

Is not the President of the United States

The most powerful people are

(Not in any particular order)

Good parents, teachers, philosophers,

Comedians, lyricists, musicians and poets

Can pretty much guarantee the above

Short list of your lifelong influencers

Are in one of those categories and

Not some schmuck in a very “white” house



“If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.”

― Mark Twain



If whoever gets elected to the presidency

Doesn’t immediately assist to stop all wars

End the proliferation of the military industrial complex

Make sure all are housed, fed and healed

Then they are merely a pliable plastic puppet

To do the bidding of the multinational

Corporations who put them there in the first place



“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”


– Angelo Devlin