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Watch the children
Play their games,
Watch the adults
Do the same.
Watch the players
Rise and fall,
Watch the broadcast
Of it all.
Watch the followers
Play their roles,
Watch the leaders
Dig the holes.
Watch them talking
Watch them spin,
As they push
The bodies in.
Watch the crowds
Cheer them on,
Watch the show
Before it’s gone.
Watch the children
Play their games,
Watch the adults
Do the same.
2 comments:
This, if I am not mistaken, is your poetic expression of what you were blogging about Trump.
Yeah I think it’s true, but in form it relates to a Leonard Cohen book I’ve been reading, published posthumously, a collection of poems, songs, sketches and selections from his notebooks, called The Flame. I’m sure you’ve seen it, and probably read it. Truth is I was never a great fan of Cohens early poems, but he just kept getting better and better with age. Don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed them more, now that I’m almost 60.
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