IMPROVISATION #229
POLITICIANS

who can  really put
their trust in
 you,man
when you change
 your status or position
face or hair
even your disposition
of words and face lifts
   with an accumulation
in a kerfuffle of lies
  at any  time or in place
when the  T.V.camera crowd
of the people's
 chorus is nearby,
tell us  is there a really ghost
 at your daily resume
as you may look
the other way
in a hot air bubble
from  a world of a Russian ruble
or  American dollar
behind your boot
 you hardly even  make a ruffle
  from your white collar
in your flair
of a proud suit of clothes
as you walk among the rabble
and rubble
of the poor who have
 may have frozen
on the  main street last night
  yet we are
 among those souls
 you have chosen
and remain loyal
 to you who because
of your Word to us
and to love our neighbor
    and be faithful
in our labor
   not to be ,merely an actor
as in the "Endgame''
  of  Samuel Beckett
not  live for  a marathon
 but to be   a jogger
  and write a diary
 in the   brackets
 of our computer
not  for lip service
or merely to pay up
in green backs
 at Monopoly,
rather to have a cup of Java
or write a letter
  read a book  under cover
 or play  scrabble
as it you may discover
that  solo look at yourself
in the night mirror
might disclose
  who you really are
 behind closed doors
looking around today
there is hardly a Pushkin
or a Whitman in  the Square
reciting as a Beat poet
 of the Sixties   to be found
or a better conceptual artist
with a canvas in the park
carrying a color field drawing
in this        post Christian hour
where the air wave hosts
on the radio
    boast all day
 in a sophisticated way
 yet are cast
     about like the stars
flying
back from coast to coast
in their knowledge
as they  share
 about social reality
or their lack of privilege,
it's better for me stay here
  and relax
in an underground
of a sound proof studio
playing riffs on my sax.