the barkers are the loudest medias

Come on, come all! To the oldest charade in America!

The trickster poet-all, the slightest-of-hand politician,
sharing the same secrets behind the curtains,
knowing the same shortcuts behind a mark’s eyes..
for pulling the heart and purse strings of billions of marionettes.[…]

The Barkers are the Loudest Medias 
&
The Stage is painted with Reds and Blues


Come on, come all! To the oldest charade in America!
 
The trickster poet-all, the slightest-of-hand politician,
sharing the same secrets behind the curtains,
knowing the same shortcuts behind a mark’s eyes..
for pulling the heart and purse strings of billions of marionettes.
 
The bleeding speech writer, the alligator-eyed orator;
The donkey debater, and the elephant enunciator,
are in a symbiotic shout-off...turning the noise of irony into sound-byte harmony-
that is nothing more than the braying at microphones over the fumbling economy,
or the stampeding clouds of rolling thunder-
that is the misdirection away from our, ideal, jolie, Lady.
 
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See this as a coin – distinctly symbolic – of one of our oldest and most insidious shows,
that only becomes more brass with every travel it tumbles through the air,
from the thumbs of Americans, shouting: Donkey "Heads!", or Elephant "Tails!"…
who, for variables of reasons, are blind from the fact -- it's no matter who called it.
It’s still the same, corrosive, coin that falls on the land...
It’s still the same, corrupt, circus that fools the ticket holder's hand..


07/09/11/
M. L. Michael 

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