I don't understand how people don't grow incredibly bored with the analysis of American political minutia - which, I suppose, is an odd thing to say for a guy obsessed with writing a daily sonnet. I was far more interested in the story on former Pakistan President Musharraf's return to and pending arrest in Pakistan. He's culpable in the murder of Benazir Bhutto, in what seems a replay of the death of her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by, again, the succeeding president of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq. Then again, I suppose I should be thankful - the most interesting political story in my country is a gap in the polls. That means that no one is being assassinated, or has been in so long that a gap in the polls is actually considered interesting. I'm sure that, were I in Pakistan, I'd have my fill of interesting stories quite quickly, and be happy to be bored in America again.
Mitt Romney’s in the lead, but I don’t care.
It’s not that I have no concern for country,
Or despair that opposition’s won. (We
Far too easily give us the scare
With every new election.) Hence, the news,
Where Romney’s lead has occupied the top.
In other news, Pervez Musharaff’s opting
For a bit of jail time, and the views
Upon his culpability are near
To those that haunted Zia. This, I say
Is far more interesting, but I may
Be here forgetting one thing that is clear:
When bigger gaps are news, nobody’s dead.
In Pakistan, elections have your head.
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