makings of a politician
come with tricks and slips and power-trips let loose from the box of wonders, the sting of ambition ringing in your ears: miseducate and diseducate, forget how to write and forget how to right, mouth what delight! what delight in the danger of power, in the power of danger, the lonely thrills that stink of sweat spittle success: bleach their ears with ignorance, boil your words down into caramelly indulgence, trick and treat till they come back for more: shove down the admission of waywardness, disprove the truth, commend it in fact, in fact , in fact: wonder why you hear screams as you stand above the butcher block you call their home, sharpening knives with a whetstone of fear, then: swallow the candy placed on your tongue before they can remember they placed it there.
