The Common Currency

Overstating the case, or the argument,
is the common currency in modern politics,
where, aided by an overspun media,
there is no opposite to being 'in emit mode',
where in person, people might speak, think,
and listen - all at once - to make a conversation.

Thus 'A peace plan', as it fills the news,
is much nearer being 'A framework for a ceasefire'
than it's planners can admit, and 'a 20 point peace plan'
where 19 of the points remain bare outlines
for future government actions
that are not even at the planning stage. 

Thus who speaks to who
and what they might say to each other,
and who might chair such meetings, 
remains unimagined and unexplained.

The Common Currency remains
the ability to speak about the future
without listening for where it will start from,
where people wish that their leaders lead
through listening to their people instead.