This Chair Not a Political Hack
The chair contemplated
the bums it had supported, fated, it seemed,
to be rated
bottom rung,
catching what might otherwise fall
between the cracks.
What the chair wished:
to be for once the one who tables
the motion,
who starts a movement with legs,
makes others do its bidding;
not hidden
beneath the suits and toots.
The thing, it thought woodenly:
to take a stand–
But life was not fair
to this chair,
and the chair?
It just sat there,and took it, oh yeah-
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A joke to lift some of the political gloom. I am sorry to be slow returning comments but very grateful for them. This is written for HA prompt on Real Toads to write from the perspective of an object. He quotes a beautiful Wallace Stevens poem, that could not be more different.
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