Talking Politics
Jan 29 2024
We used to talk politics.
Like Monday morning quarterbacks
we replayed the games
rated players
traded strategies;
more horse race
than public policy.
But now, since the sides have hardened
it's become too quarrelsome
too fraught.
Ideology
had replaced innocent fun.
Even talking sports
is complicated,
what with big money,
corporate double-speak,
race and misogyny.
Our fun conversations
has been reduced to banality
— celebrity gossip,
bad TV,
the weather report.
Awkward pauses
we never had before.
So we drift apart
like slow-motion divorce.
How I miss
the civility
of our superficial disputes
mock outrage.
Didn't matter
that whatever we said
never made a difference;
the powers-that-be
were oblivious,
nothing ever changed.
They took away our fun
since it all became so serious.
Politics
in the old days
was just entertainment.
Now, stakes raised
what once were friendly rivals
are seen as enemies;
it's life and death,
existential threat,
the end of the known world.
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