The 2024 U.S. Presidential Debacle
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
O the irony of modern U.S. politics.
So infused with so much bipartisan tricks.
While Trump, historically by rank, is bidden.
His many undertakings are still yet hidden.
Such is the nature of this incoming election.
Evoking to its citizens presidential vivisection.
While morality though questioned, it is still deferred.
It matters not to some what crimes may have occurred.
Instead, one pays more attention to a candidate’s mind.
Whether, by old age, it has left its sanity behind.
Age, then, is what is questioned most.
Is there gray matter in an octogenarian brain; or is there just a shadowy ghost.
Two senior citizens confront each other.
Each seeking to the other smother.
Issues of real substance are then set aside.
The candidates seeking instead to protect their royal hide.
This is the state now of our Presidential debate.
In retrospect, it pales ironically to what is known to us as Watergate.
What must our children surely learn from this charade.
That politics for many is just a masquerade.
A person’s vote is made to silence hypocrisy.
Democracy supplanted by more bureaucracy.
O the irony of modern politics.
So infused with lots of dirty tricks.
While Trump, ‘fore Biden, is ironically his rival.
It speaks to us of what historically is yet archival.
Two arch rival Presidents before them were destined together.
Cleveland and Harrison in 1892, the both to tether.
Now in 2024 history appears to repeat itself.
Should Biden then persist, or bid farewell; his Presidential hopes left on the shelf.
The world now waits to see what the future will portend.
To all who care to cast their votes; be they a President’s foe or a President’s friend.
About this poem
A poetic commentary on the June 2024 U.S. Presidential debate
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Written on June 28, 2024
Submitted by karlcfolkes on June 28, 2024
Modified by karlcfolkes on July 01, 2024
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| Scheme | AABC CBDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ KKAA LLGG MMNN |
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| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 1,678 |
| Words | 320 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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