tabloid debate
propaganda grates the nerves
closed door two-party system
faux (pronounced “foe”) tête–à–tête irate
while the media and their followers...
wait for it... salivate
 
what’s not to hate?
each says how great they are
but before podiumgate
he took aim at her mate
and now she at all his dates
 
couldn’t stay up late to watch
had to wipe the mental slate
but next day searched the online transcript
and not one mention of ecology, Standing Rock,
water, earth, Mother Earth...
SHE just does not tv Nielsen rate
but if you pause to consider our fate
SHE is the most important one to sate
so why all the obfuscate?
when we need to be helping
the psychological and material state
of both land-dwellers and aquatic vertebrates