Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) photograph by Michael Baytoff

August 27, 2013 – Re-Instatement August 20, 2013

They turn us off, they turn us on,
they hope it satisfices –
they banish us, invite us back,
and think that it suffices –

they are a stain, a plague, a curse
a lame excuse for leaders –
they cover-up, they obfuscate,
they lie and trick the readers.