American Tao -- no. 17

Politics

the subject of the disheartened

bereft

of poetic license;

nothing

but a license to steal.

Turn off the Fox television

let the wolves howl

into the night

of their own desperation.

I don't need it

the talking heads

who are just plain rude

and give us neither food

nor shelter nor solace.

Put the world

into the hands

of the mechanic

who fixes the gears

without speaking.