games within games

When Benny Gantz demurred to even try

to form a coalition, having won

exasperated voters wonder why

and if his whole campaign were just for fun.

Impunity--like Netanyahu's sought--

would be a terrible as pundits said.

Who can't be prosecuted, can be bought;

he'd cling to office 'til the day he's dead.

The optimist can dream that it’s a snare
in hopes of taping bribes by the Likud
to conjure coalitions out of air
(in politics, entrapment’s not deemed rude)

A better system, Churchill couldn't name,

but nobody should doubt this one's insane.