The Debate

“Devoid of decorum and dignity”

Is one of the quotes that I heard.

To know it relates to the POTUS debates

Is as awful as it is absurd.

On one side, a bully whose bluster

Would get him suspended from school;

With no self-control and a hole in his soul,

He’s a pompous, perfidious fool.

 

On the other side, he who’d replace him

Wants to pacify, help and unite

Yet in making his case, what instead he must face

Is a nasty below-the-belt fight.

 

In the middle, befuddled and helpless,

Is the person who should be in charge

But when things go off-track, he can’t stop the attack,

Like a substitute teacher writ large.

 

We watch, feeling sick and despondent,

In shock at how low we have sunk

And that outrage and shame, for which we have no name,

Lingers on in a nightmarish funk.