The New Hampshire Primary of 2024
Inclement Weather, Incensed Together
It was a dark and stormy night,
Windblown and stinging, icy,
Populated by the noisy,
Spreading oratory disease and vitriol,
But living free and dying just the same.
.
What can you do for me?
Prompt the dark, obsequious, thin-skinned, and slimy,
Pre-answered in the choosers' granite minds,
Who brave the cold and stormy night —
The dark and sort of slimy.
.
Too old! Too chaotic! Too dictatorial!
Too swampy! Too immigratory! Too woke!
Too irrelevant, too polyannish, too wishful.
Too phony — Two phony.
The readouts, not-insane, write-in-Sanity.
About the Creator
Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned church in Hull, MA. (Phase I was New Orleans and everything that entails. Hippocampus, behave!
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Comments (4)
Well done!🥰
Oooo, polyannish! I didn't know there was a word for annoyingly positive people! I just can't stand them, lol! Thank you so much for teaching me that word. I loved your poem!
Love the imagery in this piece!
Always too something! Kudos on the classic starting line and the depth you managed with os few words.