electile dysfunction in poetry

dear Viagra
we are experiencing an election
that feels like it has lasted six years so far
should we seek help immediately
we have been
endlessly tumescent with voting and debating
will this eventually just burst blood vessels
will we end up stuck with permanent blue ballots
this ceaseless political priapism
it was fun for a little while
hell, we even bragged about it
but it really just hurts so bad now
when can it go flaccid and
allow us just to be?

the extant entitled establishments
won’t cough up any of their ill-gotten bread
so they’ve set up two larger-than-usual
circuses for us I guess and sure
at first we were really impressed
but it’s gone on far too long
now we just want to eat then maybe sleep
we’re exhausted with the clowns
the juggling and the jugulars bitten
could you just fucking end now
is an end to the carnival forbidden?

Viagra
a sudden decrease in hearing
or a total hearing loss as a side-effect
would be a goddamned blessing at this point
an escape from the ramblings of the chattering class
for moderate liberals on the MSNBC
for hardcore conservatives on Fox
for people with no opinions whatsoever on CNN
we would love to no longer have to hear them
where are your other side effects?

Viagra
you certainly haven’t prevented the disease
of cynicism or
the related malady of apathy
the problems with our nation’s heart
have certainly increased devolving to
a series of actual attacks therein
can’t you end our electile dysfunction
where would be the sin
in that?

Last updated April 20, 2016