the whine of the ancient candidate
by wry banter, as a political parody of Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Coleridge Taylor.
My brief lament: If I were an artist or more capable at using Leonardo AI Image Generator, my picture here would paint a thousand words or more. Alas, stick figures are my best artistic expression of people and my skill with AI imaging yields roughly the same results. Sigh.
‘round my neck a bird doth hang, that albatross, of poet’s fame. when out the moonless night’s dark veil, flew mark robinson through air to hang with vance, already there. now two dead weights, my neck doth host scapegoats to blame, my race is toast. twice the burden, twice the pain as my counterpart did bear, that weak and ancient mariner!
Your vision is almost better in the imagination, since we can each put our own mental picture to such a scenario. And for those of who may lack the ability of mental imagery, just think of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam's artistic wonders, with a few satisfying auditory sounds thrown in.
It is an Ancient Mariner, and he stoppeth one in three... :-) Great rhyme!