Lawmaking

Constant disappointments
    From the Hollow Men*
Puffing their chests
Expelling promises
    Unfulfilled and empty
Raising fists in the air
    Arguments of stone,
Thrown in the pond of justice
     and law,
        Ripple and sink.
"Not for us?" the Hollow Men ask
     "Serve the people?"
Laughing and jeering
    Putting straw, empty heads
      together.
Hollow Men united,
"We know the answer
    to crisis averted."
Take more jobs
    And give raises to
       the Hollow men
   One and all."


*My inspiration for this poem came from T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men." You can read the original poem online to see where I am coming from.