Saturday 17 August 2024

Couplets on the Nonexistence of Democracy

The Senators don't even read the laws they vote upon.

Bills flash right by those sluggish Senators and then they're gone.

That means your government is hardly representative

at all but oligarchic. Lest mere argumentative

intentions be imputed to one, one would here aver

that Roman Senators would vote for Emperors when those were

as though these had that choice that we presume. Bills flash on by,

like scudding cumuli that one might witness way up high;

they zip right past those Senatorial attention spans.

Effectively, these mainly stamp a code upon the cans.

The cans pass far too swiftly to read labels, don't you see.

Don't blame us for the teleprompter is their earnest plea.

Well, we'll accept their plea, that of the follow-orders gang

as well, because the Devil answered when our stampede rang.