great fragile hopes

clearly wrong & really left
ride straight on murky dawn;
cases and causes in suits bereft
of heft pauses to indulge in yawn

national committee lingers members
finger memories deleted,
replete in fiscal sheets reduced to embers.
if not for sweat equity, they'd never competed

to do economics, voodoo requires the pin
encrypted by backdoor spies mostly five eyed,
above board but not above sin
protected by redacted deeds unowned and unofficially tried

hour waste or my lai, bombastic tastes
crush gently great fragile hopes debased



12-21-15 mt tabor, portland