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The meeting
Hear he comes, my spokesman
hobbles around, ribs puffed with rhetoric.
His face aglow with light of self-importance.
His tongue wagging against his adversaries.
If only you could give him this chance
he will deliver the yield to your field.
It's a good speech indeed
about good 'morrow for his people.
He extolls his party with words
well-crafted for the occasion.
The congregation roars!The ground shake
and tremple, faces light up
bemused by old-fashioned fabricated truths.
The meeting ends with murmurs of approval.
And tomorrow, he drives in to the central house.
Five years he is a lawmaker.
Five years of rhetoric and self-gain.
