To Be A Politician Poem by Alexander Shaumyan

To be a politician,
You need a special skill
To slander all your critics
Or have them jailed and killed,

To trample civil liberties,
Declare martial law
And win in rigged elections
Like Biden and Trudeau.

To be a politician,
You need to cheat and lie,
To fleece the proletariat
While you accept the bribes.

To censor those who differ
From the official truth
And to inject with poisons
The seniors and the youth.

To be a politician
For all the world's elite,
Enslaving working people
Until the fraud's complete.

With wars and propaganda
To steer the common herd
And making sure protestors
Are never seen or heard.

To be a politician,
To lose your very soul
To status, wealth and power,
Dominion and control.


February 19,2022
--Alexander Shaumyan