Congratulations Petro
"Chocolate King" Poroshenko
the billionaire confectioner
for winning
the presidential election
in Ukraine today
with 67 percent of the vote
and of course to the voters
who turned out
in record numbers despite
"Russian-backed separatist groups"
who "sought to disenfranchise
entire regions"
with "provocations and violence"
as written by Obama
in a statement today
a president whose victory
was only possible
because ceaseless calls
from citizens like him
from people who were
not running for office
just wanting a voice
were answered with laws
to reduce the degree of untruth
between America's
flagrant bellowing proclamation
of democracy
and its practice.
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
