The Elected

[indar]

The Elected
 

walk up and down

and back and forth

through halls, rooms, rotundas,

dressed in tailored suits and ties

and skirts and scarves 

and shirts with cuffs and buttons

and their highly polished shoes 

click importantly on marble floors,

walking, walking

with great sense of purpose

accompanied by staffers,

supplicants and members 

of the media whom they rarely

deign to answer for they must rush

to hearings, meetings, 

conference calls and therefore 

can't be bothered with all

this human neediness.

[poet-e]

Makes me think of the white house, but perhaps it encompasses politicians in general?

[Mark]

Oh, you've done an excellent job of capturing the puffed-up atmosphere and self-importance around these antiquated systems of political structure masquerading as democratic representation. Bravo. 

[indar]

Thanks Mark,

Our illustrious attorney general Barr ordered troops to clear peaceful protestors from in front of the White House using tear gas, rubber bullets, flash bangs, paramilitary troops of some sort and mounted police so Trump could walk across the street to stand in front of a church (he never attends) and hold up a Bible (he doesn't read) for a brief moment so he could be photographed. When a reporter later stood in the halls of congress trying to ask republican senators what they thought of that stunt, they all had places to go and things to do. That was the prompt for this write. I am sorry there is no clip of all 17 in succession it would be laughable if it wasn't so deadly serious

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.c ... r-answers/
 

[Dave]

Reminds me of VEEP
 

[indar]

A belated thank you to poet-e for the read and comment, I think the answer to your question was covered in my reply to Mark. 

And thank you  Dave for the read. I had to google VEEP--I only subscribe to netflix and amazon. Looks interesting though.