Enter the drifter, soft soap intact,
story teller, spotlight impossible to avoid.
Proverbial virtuoso of tongues, clown for all.
Words flow dishonestly like white water.
He detonates distracted droves like dynamite,
desolates communities with doublespeak.
They laugh unwittingly at his levity,
minds fondled like infants.
Ultimately poised to twist their cosmos,
he paralyzes psyches with hypnotic shroud,
dispassionately lets go their hearts.
They freefall; won't realize until thrust into hell.
Michael Bonanno is an associate editor for OpEdNews.
He is also a published poet, essayist and musician who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bonanno is a political progressive, not a Democratic Party apologist. He believes it's (more...)
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