PRL Serials

Stone Hand has a strict schedule

of meetings and speaking engagements

Running from east and west sides

ducking in and out of cabs and limousines

Stone Hand’s day is long-going,

Seemingly infinitely long.

Stone Hand merely adopts heroic airs,

he is just stone-man when smoke clears

And his head bobs as he fights fatigue

like every other fallible man he may rule

Stone Hand nods away in a meet and greet,

then ingratiates himself to the public;

“Its been a long one;” flashes the smile,

the pristine skin like buffed marble

     in a lime light

Stone Hand wins the day in NC’s 12th

and despite his sincerest efforts

He head-bobs his first committee meeting

then voices support for drastically downsizing

     foreign aid; to cover for his inattention

     and despite the need he knows exists

Stone Hand does it multiple times;

     for the concealment of the chemicals used to frack

     and against a carbon tax

And the hand that bore Stone Hand, 

Who stepped in as campaign manager,

Pats himself on the back

     “Stone Hand misses pleas for rationality

     From constituents because he dozes”