Hope springs eternal...

as Democrats swept key races
in 2025 elections in early referendum
as the donkey switch places
with the elephant in house
and Trump on the warpath
ranting and raving against good graces
being upstaged courtesy
the webbed, wide world braces
as poker faced card sharp
doth captcha aces
in the figurative hole.

What with the New York
mayoral win of far left,
democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani
Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger,
both moderates, won the governorships
of New Jersey and Virginia.

Suddenly dark shadows
rimming royal thrown
with tawdry semi-
precious stones and zinc
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious wink
and offer reason with rhyme
giving electorates pause to think
the edge of night as outer limits
of the twilight zone ever so faintly - shrink,
where already
(a little less time
than two months hence)
"Auld Lang Syne" doth plink
heralding unexpected political events,
essentially Democratic clinchers favorably link
and pierce armor
of the autocrat, and plutocrat wannabe,
who tried his darnedest
to accuse honest to dog voters
and decent, honest, when
jump/kick starting luddites
nearly didst twitter shutterfly
at the speed of sound,
when commander in chief did hoodwink,
against social progressivism
but courtesy exercising free choice
didst rent sizable chink.

If a hypothetical poll taken today,
a tad less than three hundred and sixty days
from the 2026 mid-term elections
(simple minds still in full party swing mode
regarding the never expected win
regarding Zohran Kwame Mamdani,
an American politician
and first practicing Muslim
and mayor-elect of New York City.

A member of the Democratic Party
and the Democratic Socialists of America,
he has served as a member
of the New York State Assembly
from the 36th district since 2021,
representing the Queens
neighborhood of Astoria
Suddenly apocalyptic dystopian scenarios
appear less ominous and bleak
dawning realization triggered
a much milder reaction
analogous to when the gold rush spurred
the madding crowd to head for the hills
taking enough pause to utter salutations
such as "Konichiwa" - (こんにちは)
for a general "hello" or "good afternoon"
bandied across language barriers
from remote desolate
outpost of Poker Flats, to Cripple Creek.

More reason and rhyme
to buckle down with brass tacks
wallow in the muck and mire
and emerge covered in grime
anointing ephemeral folk heroes
characterized courtesy silent film stars
with exaggerated antics
did mine and mime
the rich motherlode birthing slapstick
quaint comedic troupes
that stood the test of time.

Back then viz the roaring twenties
which gave rise to a more
sobering prohibition thirties
within which the collective consciousness
begat vocalizations for the "little man,"
and the fringe populations of downtrodden
popularized courtesy anemic
social Darwinism phenomena,
whereby voices emerged
(outraged against the bourgeoisie
the wealthy class that owned
the means of production)
caricatured courtesy Charlie Chaplin
in his silent film Modern Times,
bespoke volumes and stereotyped people
according to their race, religion, nationality,
et cetera courtesy blatant
bias, bigotry, prejudice, et cetera
still omnipresent within
the second decade
of the twenty first century,
whereby the freedoms
of choice, religion, speech
though heavily suppressed of late.