Today's poem is inspired by election season in Hawaii. One of the candidates for mayor on the island of Kauai is an anti GMO advocate, MMA fighter, and surfer.
there are many words
that don't come
to mind
as I drive by
brightly colored signs
hanging from fences
with names I can't pronounce
the man who chose
to run three weeks ago
has the lead,
and has raised
more money
and gathered
more speed
by
doing what's right (some people really hate that about him)
the politicians are confused.
they stopped working for
you, the people,
when 'new guy'
was in preschool,
winning all along
because
the voters didn't know
any better so
while they counted their
winnings and escaped jail,
the future mayor
surfed and healed,
making him
perfectly unprepared
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