by Jeff Burt
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| Craig Bennett |
If only we had political strength WD-40,
that you could spray a little on an MTG or MG
and the braying, the screeching, the informing
about its presence could be silenced by a squirt.
The door would re-assume humility
in being a utility again, no longer the portal
which the candidates think they provide
into a yawning perfecting future,
but simple wood, hinged and soundless,
meant once to be opened, and then kept shut.
Jeff Burt lives in Santa Cruz County, California and has worked in administration of electronics and mental health care.