Keeping Perceptions Alive Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

Investments kept,
In keeping perceptions alive...
Is far more productive.
And extremely more beneficial,
Than preparing long winded speeches...
Detailing realities.
Or the expense it takes,
To accept them for what they are.
Forget that 'shoot-from-the-hip' presentation.
Be short and quick.
Say what today will be more effective.
Lie with sincerity kept in your eyes.
And remember...
Honesty is a thing very few reminisce,
As a priority missed.

Also...
And as a suggestion,
Remove anything that mentions taxes.
Or the necessity of them needed to be raised.
But then again on the other hand,
Not to mention lowering them...
To return back to times when a loaf of bread,
Had been twenty-five cents 'then'...
Does have a 50/50 chance of being believed.

'What about the economy and jobs needed? '

Stay with your promotion of higher education.
Who knows...
Maybe one day jobs will be created,
And the keeping perceptions alive...
Will diminish the need for people to think,
Eating to feed themselves was an entitlement...
To regard as relevant.
Being bone thin is in.

Afterall...
What is more significant?
A perception kept of reality...
Or a reality to face that offends? EVERYBODY.

'So...
Should I or should I 'not',
Say anything about free crack for all?
That seems to get everyone's attention.'

That's already been approved.
It's the cigarettes and the nicotine...
That will be your greatest challenge.
To remove 'that' from all the addicts.
If I were you I wouldn't mention that either.
Keeping perceptions alive...
Will determine your survival as a politician.