Are you tired of the corruption?
Change your life, the commercial prompts.
Shaking hands with widows,
And kissing baby’s cheeks,
The picture-perfect politician
Promised to fix everything.
Are you ready to be represented,
For someone to understand you? -the flyer in your box asked.
Visiting white-collar job sites,
And passing out food to the needy,
The picture-perfect politician
Promised to fix everything.
Now you watch their assurances crumble,
Corruption and lies on your newsfeed.
Economy tanking,
Freedoms halted.
The picture-perfect politician
Destroyed everything.
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Picture Perfect Politician
by Stephanie Daich
