Mish at dVerse has invited us to write a quadrille (44 words) on the word flush.
Photo: pixabay.com
“I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?” Joan Didion
Politician Bust
His mood high as
he strode the hall
ready to ace the gaggle,
playing his cards close,
the microphones invaded
and he read his hand,
a frown creasing his face,
nothing was straight,
nothing was flush,
his game was a bust,
police sirens wailing.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
The toilet paper square for Mish at dVerse
Paul, pvcann.com
parallax 
Mirror, mirror on the wall, whose politician is the worst of all? Answers may vary.
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There’s a queue for sure Pat 🙂
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Ours has to be near the too of them at.🙄
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Yes, I’m sad to say there’s not much competition for top spot even from Russia, China, Brazil, Philippines and North Korea who all hold second.
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Good one!
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🙂
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Ha ha…good one!
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Thanks for including that photo! 😂
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I couldn’t resist 🙂 Thank you.
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HATE when that happens! 🤣
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Lol, indeed. 🙂
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So aptly describes our daily filibusters from D.C.
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🙂 If only the sirens were real.
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Precisely!
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Fingers crossed.
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Good point about holding all the aces but in the wrong game.
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I thought so, as well. Very Joan Didion.
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Thank you Liz.
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Which bodes ill for the rest of us, even so I do smile at their sheer brass.
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Best of all, the poem is written on toilet paper, a single square, no less!
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I just couldn’t resist, Mish joked about it, but I just had to for real 🙂
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Yeah, Paul! So wonderful. Let this become true. 😉 Best wishes, Michael
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😉 thank you Michael
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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Bet that wiped the smile off his face 🙂
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I wish this to be true everywhere 🙂
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I keep hoping for those sirens 🙂
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Oh thanks for humoring me! A quadrille does fit nicely on those little squares. Yes, I am amazed that those sirens haven’t taken him away already.
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I keep hoping 🙂 thank you Mish.
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Dandy! Very clever…
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Many thanks Nat.
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Such a great poem – another unexpected take on the word given
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Thank you Lyn.
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