Before Polling
By the day
before polling, all speeches
Are spoken, the
arguments won or lost,
Promises
promised, fingers firmly crossed.
Meanwhile,
common experience teaches,
Manifestos
are just works of fiction,
No matter
how detailed, or blessedly brief,
They require
suspension of disbelief.
Everyone who
has a predilection
To regard
suffrage as a precious gem,
Might
consider the parties and decline
To cast the
pearl of their vote for the swine
Who have all
consistently misled them.
Day after
polling, as things are arranged,
Voters will
find that very little’s changed.
D. A.
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