Three Line Lunch: As LA’s Budget Crisis is Solved Once Again

a yearlong diary in three-line poems by Jeff Rogers, day 31

As LA’s Budget Crisis is Solved Once Again

What is it about the baroque theater of human behavior that is politics?
It’s a pressure cooker, that squeezes all possible ego, insecurity, rage, and nobility,
Out into our halls of government, our screens, and the newsprint that blacks our fingers.