substantive

long for oratory soaring
to swell communal sense
once, I thought, we listened
with more open hearts
when we progessed some
if only in fits and starts
when we consumed
rhetoric more substantive
misspelled ALL CAPS tweets
oh, these days would send
our better angels to retreat
bile boils within my breast
as hatred smiles and simpers
followed by pundits spinning
no more "winning"
the "countrty" wimpers
yet mayhap
a voice will rise
above the cacophony
a voice that defies
the easy vitriol
of baseball cap politics
and dirty tricks