Reformation
Maintaining ‘Socialism’ as watchword
Can seem unlikely, when realpolitik
Is succumbing to the three card trick
Of the slight of hand dealer in absurd
Demagogy, when the popular vote
Is placed on populist blandishments,
Falsified promises; reason relents
Its influence. Without considered thought
Reform, however tempting it appears,
Remains a mistaken gamble to make,
Especially with the future as the stake:
Gamblers regret can last for years and years.
There’s none as asleep as the mistaken,
Being so, so difficult to awaken.
D. A.