CULTURE PHONIES

Culture is a cult politicians cultivate to con

Culture casts aside caution to create costs

It boasts of bouts of brainwashing bubbles

Where pride presides in pristine promises


Lying leaders lead lost losers lavishly

Preaching progress in porous parades

Chanting culture in chiselled casts of care

Hoodwinking in hidden holds of haughty heists


Political phonies ply people with fantasies

Calling culture a cure to causes of complex

That they thickly thought of to thwart true thoughts

So that nations note notions with naught needs


Bands of bandits brandish banners of blasphemy

Clamming as they claim to clone culture correctly

Cutting chasms cased in coffins of coated charisma

While whittling at the whimsical wants of whiny wishers


Leaders lost in lust for lasting leases of lording

Sell sneaky styles for sane sense to simple souls

Calling culture a care for collective calm

While restraining with raptured robes of rusty realms.


By Andrew Onalenna Sesinyi

Written in the dark of night: 00:15hrs 10th March, 2011.