Alien Coup Poem by Mary Champion

Slow dripping destruction!
Corruption infuses the state from top to bottom.
Traditional values and virtues are lost.
Grandiose claims are made -
repeatedly and meaninglessly,
achieving only further disillusion.
Chaos and crime spread like cancers
threatening total anarchy.

Clouds of distrust blow in the wind -
the lies of the administrators foster doubt.
A curious stream of indecision infects a government
whose only aim is to conserve power,
which it can only gain
by pleasing a nebulous electorate
most of whom,
most of them never meet.