Politicks

Democracy used as panacea

meritocracy a redundant idea

genocides in thy name baptised

warfares on thy holiness devised

be part of the commonwealth

rogue nation nursed back to health

abandon tribal collectivity

apply for universal productivity

single individual rise and shine

come aboard for currency is time

global democracy appears benign.

Opportunist enter the constitutional shrine

kindly requested to memorise the articles

free markets' founding particles

religiously revere the symbol

recite with us newly christened cymbal

the elementary characteristics

of hierarchical differentiation

pay attention to logistics

follow stratified participation

aptly massage the statistics

brandish gerrymandering intrinsics.

Castes and orders articulated

social bodies grow frustrated

calm the interest clash at gold's behest

rule over stockbrocking requests

centralised policies implementation

redefinition of each ration

for every healthy nationality

detected a systemic fatality

pervading circulatory sanctity

sacrificial bidding of quality

altar covered with knavish verticality.

Galvanize via sugarcoating

authentic tradition creeps in foreboding

returns evermore rebelliously iconic

restrict ethnos the moronic

bolster hapless demos

by unleashing Deimos

relax because power corrupts

fictional supremacy erupts

flattering political perspectives

plebeians' enlightenment directives.

Whenever despondent

along with the French Revolution

two conundrums in dissolution

use nationalist facade and content

drown the masses in particularization

asphyxiate their cooperation

overthrow legitimate sovereignty

poison the self-subsisting entity

with limited irresistible warranty

praise the democracy of the dead

elusive deified inheritance

for in God we trust

emotive motto of the past.

Senate of the owls

order invariably prowls

speaks atop the panopticon

worldview like a spherical polygon

''Come forth our submissive politicks!''

''Come out of the woodwork!''

''Jump out of urban bricks!''

''Bloodthirsty insects learn new tricks!''

''Leech off  les misérables!''

''Go where labour and blind faith is ample!''

Stagyrean philosopher; Oh Aristotle!

Mind which mobocracy won't mollycoddle

demagoguery thrives on democracy

essential brain cells wasted on bureaucracy

in a cesspool of political correctness

polity brings about needed freshness

denudes Hegelian dialectic

lyses a ploy for the dyspeptic

bread and circuses my insightful Juvenal

manna medicine keeping us senile

the beast for us to resist, an act futile

never those corrupt charged with graft

politicks reading tomes of leftist witchcraft

thus, you don't have to waste your spittle

rehydrate sere grass harvested with sickle

unsalvageable brains pummeled by hammer

only polity restores and ends the programmer.

Seems an arrogant thing to say

but people will believe in lies come what may

twins born out of the same uterus

at their service venal slaves numerous

divide and conquer the grand design

spoils of wars land slices on a goldmine

collected oil sponsorships out of the ruins

offered as donations to grief-stricken bedouins

bloodstain laundering by eleeymosynary route

alliances and treaties in a perpetual canon hoot

an equivocal phrase always enunciated

a statement into all languages need be translated

''We must learn to live together as brothers''

shed and throw away our costumary covers

''or perish together as fools''

in that distinction is prohibited by globalist rules.

Abdesybaris

Great desiccation rears its head

a decision is made marking a watershed

an arrangement with exhibitionism in mind

creation of a cistern one of a kind.

Enormous like an emperor's pool

a pond the ocean fish could befool

reservoir rewriting human history

accolades won for this revitalising hymnary.

Ere the water tank we begin to synthesise

first a brilliant fundraiser must be held

for our city's glory on its walls to crystallise

coveted by others a monument unparalleled.

Sung as the greatest wonder of the world

incidentally, a resplendent architectural marvel

shall never be left simplistic to join the fold

but complete with a fountain of the whitest marble.

Months of backbreaking work and geometric calculation

followed by breathers of bacchanalian revelry

then eftsoons resumed with enhanced dedication

may we proudly present to you the well of reverie.

Anacreon has written a poem to celebrate

fabulous rhapsody our sophistication extols

Abderian creation which gods has made irate

without further ado, the unveiling, begin the drum roll!

The veil is lifted and dropped like a pin

wonderment has taken prisoners the crowd

words of the poet accompanied by harp and violin

speechless and ecstatic, feelings abound.

Engravings of Poseidon and his underwater legions

seductive Nereids encircle the fountain's brim

visitors in droves will come from other regions

genuflect before our glitz and stature which theirs bedim.

The bovine gaze is interrupted by some chortle

a liliputian resident and the city's madman laugh

the orchestra  pauses at the jester carrying a bauble

pride gives way to trepidation spotting the gaffe.

The madman hollers; ''Extravaganza, sans substance!''

The toddler cries out; ''I spy water's absence!''

Anacreon mussitates; ''Gods, 'tis Democritus birthplace!''

King groans; ''To him, founder of the atom, we, a disgrace!''

Guest Diogenes advises; ''Bolt your city gate!''

''At all times if possible or, better yet, go fortify it!''

''For it is loose so take the furbelow to corrugate.''

''Before the whole of Abdera slips out of its outfit.''

On sparkling wine's ebullience we lost our minds

with a handful of mites, nature the birdbrain provides

consigned to oblivion the blueprint for the aqueduct

from the bile duct, caustic green reviews will eruct.

Forever remembered as a laughingstock

the city whose name will give the definition

local attributive used as term to mock

registered in dictionaries under vainglorious omission.

Laughter travels through the air currents

the boastful quenched their thirst in opulent torrents

spouting from an overwrought blunder

infeasible for anyone else to steal this thunder.

The laughter reaches the coast of Sybaris

announcing the grand cistern was filled up with hybris

became the urinal of Xerxes and Darius the First

tiara and scimitar, jesters in menial gratuity submersed.

The Sybarites couldn't pay any attention

up to their necks and eyeballs in luxuriation

living to gluttonise and squander daily

opprobrium wouldn't stop indulge themselves so gaily.

Materialism, this city's sacred dogma

licentiousness, tepidity regarded as good karma

symposia and festivals garble the derisive cackle

the sound reaching their ears perceived as wine gargle.

Day after day and night after night

under the moon and stars or in broad daylight

they continued with a life of leisure and frolics

leaving all tasks to slaves, their workaholics.

Magna Graecia's lands were blessed

lives fed on podgy harvest with added zest

ships loaded with goods arrived at the bustling harbour

bartering exotic foods before every departure.

Once, a wealthy trader woke up with lumbago

being out of shape and soft like leavened dough

for sleeping on a bed sprinkled with rose petals

he called in sick owing to a folded one's sting of nettles.

Not a rooster's crow was to be heard at dawn

for screaming all were ousted from the city of Sybaris

drawing on the clinophiles' faces a permanent yawn

before every new day's sunrise pierced the sky cribrous.

When the Sybarite Myndirides traveled to Sycion

asking Cleisthenes' daughter's hand in marriage

he was escorted by a thousand slave-drawn carriage

attended by chefs, huntsmen, fishermen, a sapid scion.

The fellow citizens of Myndirides were gourmands

their mouths always full of exotic and rich viands

prepared by the best cooking and confectionery hands

inventors held yearly patents for their culinary birth pangs.

Invitations to the sumptuous annual banquet 

were sent to their recipients one year ahead

blacksmiths and carpenters were forced out

their professions being strenuous and loud.

There was an incident of a Sybarite fainting

the aristocrat collapsed in an episode of syncope

some workers moiled on a roof to lay the slating

standard reaction from those who lived so carefree.

People recounted the story of that tragedy

another Sybarite hearing this lost his joviality

he begged them to stop immediately narrating

felt acutely the workers' toil, his ribs started aching.

Balneae focused on rigorous learning

loutrochoi were taught not to be perturbing

slowly and carefully they showered the bathers

doing caldarium, tepidarium or frigitarium favours.

During 6th century BC, Sybaris skirmished with Kroton

pleasures tolled the death knell for a great glutton

in 510 BC, Kroton dissolved Sybaris by the river Crathis

lethargy turned the brass warrior statue into verdigris.

Roaming Rascals

Electric eye plugs in

radio towers transmitting

satellites recite from sheepskin

a retching crowd starts vomiting

invisible veins recycling aspects

thin air sculptures the prospects.

Rumour has it,

my cousin's boyfriend's brother

was told it has a ring to it

by a neighbour's friend's mother

but the narrative does not fit

newsflash has gone undercover.

Reputedly, an event is due

uncle's colleague's best friend has read

happens to be right on cue

slithering letters of a hissing copperhead

spread on paper crawling out of tunnels

at night, hosted on talk-show panels.

Rumours travelling faster than light

words spread like wildfire

letters sewn together in foresight

cinders cultivate a haphazard brier

in slips of the tongues stabs smite

channels pinned on a thorny wire.

Take the headlines in your stride

sprinkled with some grain of salt

granules will preserve your hide

questioning trust is losing by default

believe in the magnificence of sand castles

forget the twitch in your eyes and muscles.

Bloodshot eyes rolling in the sockets

universes swirling inside the pockets

waterproof messages in bottles

receivers dive wearing their goggles

cork's pop philosophising on mute

choker with detritus a space, facts to confute.

Teasers put to hard work as barkers

catchpenny mottos summon the crowd

dowdy intelligence is being shout out loud

alert betas looking askance at the wormhole

repetitive usherettes guide to the seats

attractive cajolery into the head beats. 

Scowling stares slowly hypnotized by malaise

termagant inner critic becoming drowsy

brains beaten joyfully into a smooth mayonaise

pupils dilate on command and irises turn mousey

slipping further away into a fictitious daydream

the scariest film ever to make you silently scream.

Meditation in the sanctum sanctorum

pains followed by fractured gains

imparted to the audience secrets of decorum

alphas bombarded by paper planes

rainbow smoke trails in the shape of paper clips

dissected butterflies feeding voracious thrips.

Letters were alphabetically in order

alphas are strewn in total disorder

nurses keep in place the programming

concentration stricken with barrage jamming

communication belaboured ineffectual

imagination and learning run conventual.

Agitprop overrides the betas with panache 

fissure in trust opened by lamda libels

bulbous osteal cups of pungent squash

down the storm drain poisoning the vitals

clench the teeth until the finish line

where you become the circle's cosine.

One hundred and seventy six steps

point six hundred and twenty five volts

means of lying epsilon corrective specs

opened holes repaired with bolts

beffudled state of intuition

undue former social scene in remission.

Rapid eye movement inside the dreamy state

condition feels like fabricated phi fate

somewhere adrift between the space of two

pushing and pulling of alphas and deltas

theta is making its fraternity debut

materialising with virtuosity psionic shelters.

A voice barely audible and heckled

nys and rhos use soundbites

testimonies are thoroughly speckled

deceptions and illusions are the highlights

irrepressible, decisive and homogenising

zetas orchestrate concerts compromising.

The gates have opened up to nightmares

roaming rascals the status quo henchmen

royal guard inching closer, their Yeomen

riding the airwaves on metallic mares

apocalyptic flood of heterogeneous news

confliction crashes unceasingly upon the citizens.

Deltas are fast asleep counting sheep

a slow dance to death on all fours

pis in their dotage forced to creep

taus' tactical management and info wars

with omicrons have nurtured tumours

eight compelling needs to intellectual neap.

At this healing process the alarm goes off

heroic etas became symbols of humiliation

transcendental beauty lost in a trade-off

retorts dribble detrimental causation

for salvation, ypsilon prayers exiting the lips

entreating the alpha and omega before the trip to styx.

Riptide steals from this dimension

deprives of time required for reflection

analytical prowess sunken, while the attention, 

which has become sufficiently shallow

constantly urged by a new invitation

generously rewarded to remain callow.

Gamma state is achieved by wailing in oblivion

spiritual understanding is granted to the simian

godspeed, a blessing outracing the speed of light

the soul mirrored as an angel, not a sprite

malevolent mys revert to morals

minds no longer trapped in propaganda corals.

Nocturnal nys widening endogenous skies

mispronounced as kappas to the third power

sigmas signalling the breathtaking sunrise

iotas gifting strength during the darkest hour

omicrons expressing adamant courage

powerful chis and psis will be common occurrence.

Interrogative natures might hear a knock

indoctrinated kicks will bust the doors down

inquisitive thresholds be marked with chalk

doubts to deracination will get bitten

taken for a walk of shame in a dunce crown

in the pillory for all to see with spit and stigma ridden.