The Show

Charismatic, Automatic
Reserved, tense
Striding in step on a stage
Impressing no one
Threating
No one was exempt from taxes, attacks
or defence
Far from civil this was pretense
we accept as political discussion,
Rehearsed, practiced
Presented as humane
We worry, we wonder if either gentleman
has a sane idea in his head.

Complicit in the discourse is the population at large
Livin' large
that's what it's all about,
So much for the concept of innocence
we gave up the right
to call ourselves anything but guilty
for watching The Show last night