Wait now, is this a mock-up of high school
politics where the student council is comprised
of candidates whose breezy self-confidence
and high marks for memory and mimicry
make them the envy of the student body? A
moment of lightness in a background of stern
grey world events where leaders of the advanced
world economies sharing their complacency
of peace in their time champion a courageous
underdog at the mercy of a snarling bear. Where
in an engineered conference sit the G7 leaders
discussing a brutal war of attrition they respond
to by arming the victim; they a cheering section
in a no-holds-barred game of survival. Seated
comfortably as non-combatants whose nations
are not under threat ostensibly to listen gravely
to the leader whose nation is held hostage to a
manufactured territorial dispute, speaking by
video connection to the backs of the heads of
bored patrons, distracted by quips and mockery
passed back and forth in good fellowship, their
mutual protege's anguish in the conditions faced
by his country in pleas for greater assistance and
commitment lost to the aura of self-congratulation.
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