How to Get Elected
By FlatDaddy
It takes big bucks
cause the luck’s with the clucks
with the cash,
the stash of tucks in the pocket.
That’s the socket, the clock to set the
rocket of success,
luck’s best
with big bucks sucked in trucked in
shucked an’ jived
by ducks in dives,
in smoke filled back rooms, company cars,
bars and stars
wave to wars
of campaign cash.
Politico’s noses
shows they knows
it grows on bottom lines,
in gas pump lines,
and prices rise with doves’ demise.
The war’s the star
and the star’s on the cap
of the man with the cup
and the cup has the cash
and the cash makes the man
and the man is the company’s —
and the company is measured
by all the men it keeps.
If ya gotta go politico ya oughta know the rules
It’s the clues of the ruse
that the ruler rules the fools
schools the tool that cues the jewels.
That’s the cruelest rule of ruses,
raises rows of purses roses,
fills the pool of fuel he uses;
but the one who sings the blues’s
he that blew the rule of ruses,
drew the cruise of gruesome bruises,
cries accrued until he boozes.
’cause the wisest rulers realize
the rules nay rule the rulers.
And the wiley ruler rarely rules
relying on his muses,
skews the views of queued abuses,
hews the noose of grue he fuses,
screws the few his crew accuses,
whose neuroses fire the fuses,
stews the boos, the don’ts and do’s,
and the ruler who peruses
which issue best confuses
when he waltzes wows and woos us
rules the gooses when they chooses
or the news is:
He loses.
Very entertaining! I don’t trust politicians no matter who they are.
Ah, thank you! Did you play the audio? I need to redo it, but it’s not too bad.
I listened to the audio and it sounded great to me. Lots of rhythm.
Oh, good. I still need to fix it though (it’s missing a word I had to add after Trump took the throne, er, office.)
haha, well then get that word in flat daddy. One word might not make a difference unless it’s a real good one. 🙂
Oh, yes! The word is “nay” — it wasn’t in there before. I won’t tell you where (oh, boy, a treasure hunt!), but once you find it, you’ll understand why I had to add it. So now I must add it to the audio — which, of course, requires doing it again.
I wish you luck in your endeavor. 🙂
Thanks, Tim
Super cool and fun poetic satire on the cash that floats our politicians. Buying elections with the telegenic looks and velvet tongue has been going on for a long time. Great poem.
John
Ah, yes, and I find it strange for that very reason that I did not go into politics myself; it’s too bad my mirror does not agree. Damn lying glassy two-dimensional things that populate every bathroom I’ve ever been in. Who put those damn things there? Certainly not me! Thanks for the nice comments, John.