Election Day Contest

Always so predictable I lamented
For on this Election Day
I saw the same old show
The same old way
No unique votes to throw

The Democratic incumbent
A handsome enough steed
Clip clopped in all his donkey glory
Onto the gridiron today

To face off against the challenger
That classic dusty old elephant
Strong in so many ways
Yet in others so not

Oh there are other parties involved too
Mainly supporting the action though
The Green Party graciously laid down
And provided the lovely grass playing field

The Libertarians play as coaches
Yelling encouragement to the main players
Whispering into mics and listening on headsets
Lest any vital plays someone could steal

The Justice party suited up
In their zebra striped pajamas
And are refereeing this contest
With rulebooks in the hand of all line judges

On the opening play
The Democrat opened his mouth impossibly wide
Vomiting a rainbow fifty yards long and filling the field side to side
But the elephant knew it was coming
As that was last season's play
He tempered the colors with Republican conscience
Turning it all into various shades of gray

The contest went on like that
Roaring up and down the field
Seemingly no end in sight
As neither side would yield

But eventually the crowd won out
Made up of you and I
We stormed the field in confused rage
Tearing up the turf
Setting fire to the stage

Until the dust finally settled
Sometime later in the day
What we had left as the apparent winner
Was neither elephant or donkey
It looked like something a mad scientist would make
Out of bits of each
Some elephant legs upon a donkey body
A strange looking head that actually had a beak

Nobody knew where the beak had come from
But there wasn't any going back now
We just declared this strange hybrid creature the victor
Gave him his spoils and went out to Denny's for dinner.