politicians are all made of air. 
hot and entitled hair. 
I have had enough of it. 
enough of it all. 
the news and the nightmare.
the arguing and the attacks. 
I want to leave. 
I want to discover a pond in Paris.
find an apartment overlooking it. 
live there forever without a TV.
consider throwing my cellphone into the pond. 
meet a good gal and give up my past. 
this wishful poem could keep going. 
but I am going to stop there.
and figure out how I actually attain this disappearing. 
how hard can it be? 
maybe it is a grand collision with a nice consequence. 
I have to work with what is left.
of days. 
let the rocks skip across the water's surface. 
unflattened. 
not flattered. 
if so, I will never return to the scenes of my life's crimes.