Pity The Modern Satirist

Pity the humorist who takes aim
at the grandeur of their government,
seeking to reduce it's pomp,
when the scale the pronouncements
they seek to reduce is that vast
that gov't have permanent poker faces
to  help sell the most absurd arguments
and even more, be shameless as liars.

It is not just that the comic writers
have to be better in their reasons
than the governments they criticise,
but to make mirth so consistently
with their reasoning is quite some trick.

It must be depressing at some level,
to have harvested this weeks laughter
only to find that the government
you moulded it from does not care
as long as it's permanence is assured.

It believes it will outlast not just you,
today's satirist who will be gone tomorrow,
but it will outlive all the humour in the world
and to live so long without humour
is to live well beyond depression.