Elections, as You Know, Are Bought and Sold

November 7, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is politics in honor of Election Day (USA), which falls on November 8.

Today’s poem is a poem for Election Day about campaign contributions.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Elections, as you know, are bought and sold

Like favors from a well-proportioned whore.

Each scandal is a tale often told,

Creating a brief sigh, and nothing more.

The problem is systemic, deeply rooted

In our view of speech that should be free.

Our courts say even money can’t be muted,

No more than words in our democracy.

Dare we try to limit the expense,

And muzzle those whose PACs are a pretense,

Yielding time to all sides equally?

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/elect3.html . For more poems about Election Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/electiondaypoems.html.

This week’s theme: Politics.

November 7: Elections, as You Know, Are Boughtand Sold