his clouds became him
gave a gravitas
to shallow depths
his furrowed browline
suggested thought
where he had no thought left
his timbre speaking
that certainty
of nothings that he knew
all delivered
as if every word he said
were always true
his false bonhomie
pretended humour
appealing to the mass
aggrandised buffoon
no heavyweight
a welter of his class
a tangled hotchpotch
of bits of this
and little bits of that
a foppish foolhard
revealing
total absence of eclat
his stilted byline
pretender, poseur, politician
ponce for hire
substance lacking
mere mirror of each other
unfit for purpose, fakers, little liars
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Wow, awesome!
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Thank you. 🙂
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And how easily the masses are fooled as they clammer for leadership or salvation. A pointed and powerful poem, Anne-Marie.
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Some of them leave me cold, some seething, some, god help me, with utter disdain. I won’t mention names but I’m sure you can guess.
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we in the US are similarly afflicted
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I was thinking of one of your chaps in particular along with many of our own here. Bit of a composite and not much to choose in the mix.
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Ours have resorted to major back stabbing again…I think we’ve had five prime ministers in 5 years…and we only actually voted for 1 😀
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They can be so…so…what’s the word? Churlish? Childish? Selfish? Aggravating? Irresponsible? Petulant? Give me a few days and I’ll check my dictionary for all the words that some politicians convey just by attitude alone before they even open their mouths. God preserve us from arseholes. ‘scuse my French. But, really. It’s a shame to waste several countries on them when we could lump some of them altogether in one location. Is Alcatraz still viable?
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Now that sounds like a plan 🙂
You know…if they acted like that in class you would send them out to do a stint in detention….or at least a clip under the ear 🙂
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I think that there are so many fake people who make false promises and your descriptive words were making me crack up!
“Foppish foolhard” and “aggrandised buffoon” were such great words that evoke public personal and characters in my mind. 🙂
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Some mothers do have ’em. Shouldn’t be allowed out of the house unaccompanied.
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Oh, yes, the initials came to mind immediately. We have a couple of these who have the temerity to think that boastfulness can disguise vapidity. They will not succeed here in 2016.
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Not if we have anything to do with it, Beth. 😉 It’s global don’t you know?
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