THIS IS THE WAY DEMOCRACY DIES
An original poem by voisovrsn.
(With apologies to whomever wrote "This is the Way the World Ends"

This is the way Democracy dies---
not with a bomb, but a coup---
secretly snaked in a covert chain
burying Truth and bending the brain,
Conspiring to kill, the People's Will.

Shunning the Law and the Constitution,
transmuiting the Framers' intent
Bound together in gross mutation
Siamese Branches of Government bent
To paralyze a long-proud Nation. (written January, 2000)