Brouhaha

All you can do is laugh. Watching
People crowd like pidgeons
Before a man throwing
Promises like sunflower seeds.

He stands on a platform
Covered in curled streamers
Like he's going to the hanging.
Of his opponent.

People wave and clap as he
Walks away. It's some achievement
To walk straight, whilst
Hugging babies.

Another man stands on the tarmac
Seeing the bloody hanging rope.
Broom in hand, he sweeps the paper
Trails away.

From now, all is quiet. Bruush. Brussh.
He never got near to the office door.
Too much laughter to hear what he said.
They didn't believe a word.