Churned from the choreographed college
He beams with brilliance
Baby-faced innocence bubbles,
To the press
And to the populace
Unbridled truth and sincerity

And so at the blink of the cameras
He blinks not but bleats
That the pop-pop at the Airport yesterday
Was no work of a bomb-blowing bastard
But a porter's press on a packet of milk
Who didn't play with Nyayo free milk
And played this game?
Stop exposing your backwardness before the international press
He quips
And quits the statement

This evening
She sank with her daughter
Inside their van veering off the ferry
The spokes entertained us again
With a straight suit and eloquent
Essayist briefs
The military will intervene
We are at it
Until all hope sank to the seabed
Sometimes later
The spokesman celebrated
The recovery of the decomposing dead

He, mostly.
Promises punishment
To those doubting
State of the nation stories
And point punctures to power
And with a threat
The brief is
Brief and over

The government spokesman
Spins and spins
And makes the government
Win and win
He smiles and smiles
While the whole nation
Whines in lies

He tinkers with the truth
Bought from a booth
At the cost of an arm
And a tooth
Pampers the president
(Pelting the populace)
Putrid precedent

Government spokesman
It is raining
How shall you put it?
The government is in
The process....

You are the spoke
Upon which your master
Wheels
You are the yoke
Fanning frightful feels

With militaristic precision
You execute your mission
With journalistic finesse
You domicile some doubt
With police perfection
You (dis)charge (dis)service to all

Government spokesman,
With what merit shall you
State statistics as they are
(Not seem or ought)?

Spokesman
What's the state of your state
Today?

With what lie
shall you make me lie
Tonight?