Wading the Tide

The Politician Never Learns

9 Wading the Tide Alas this hive in chaos. the queen growing fatter though egg-less her swollen abdomen a curse, a storehouse for all and even the widow's mite. Words, words, promises, strategies, measures: the king a toddler doodling with concepts while his unpatriotic heart the real solutions harbours. Woe to the proletariat, that giant cockroach without feelers dancing in the dark to unpatriotic vibrations of demagogic meaninglessness has ruined us. Thanks Alhadji, such a will to bequeath posterity. The Politician Never Learns Only the politician makes the same mistake twice; only the politician is the second fool; he alone never learns. He is praised at the dawn of his tenure and stripped bare as the years roll by. Yet, year in year out, he fights to renew his disgrace; he is fooling himself, this second fool. ...