February 21, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Presidents Day, which
this year was celebrated on February 19th.
Today’s poem is a political number poem for someone who
exposes an unjust status quo.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Fifty-nine takes pleasure in exposing
Instruments of everyday oppression,
Fantasies of normalcy sustaining
The brutal oligarchy of possession.
Yet what she does is more than mere expression.
Nor does she care what fat she might be frying
In bold pursuit of media attention,
Nemesis of all who show discretion
Even as they see so many dying.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/59b.html.
For more poems about politics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Politics
February 19: President’s Day? Presidents’ Day? Or Presidents Day?
February 20: The Market Is a Merciless Beast
February 21: Fifty-Nine2
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