smoke and mirrors

It's the wrong time of year

to be thinking about politics.

There's never a good time

to be thinking about that.

You've been told

to think about trees instead,

and how they stretch up,

yawning like trees.

And how that’s like rhyming love

with love

you have to be careful.

Be sure you share taste in film

and other interests

or it cannot last.

you know

a park bench is the poor man's box seat,

offering the very best view

of the show;

a show in which one cannot see

one is acting

like it's the wrong time of year

to be wearing that shirt,

to be watching that show.

It’s the wrong time of year

to be reading that

it's the wrong time of year

to be thinking about politics-

that's just smoke and mirrors.