Poetry Emotion

           

My upcoming newspaper column. The keen observer will note a change in form.

Some say I am making things worse.

Then how ‘bout I try it with verse?

This might be the time

For turning to rhyme

To make it sound less like a curse

Than the stuff I am wont to produce.

So why not attempt to let loose

A handful of poems

Instead of the tomes

That Trumpites consider abuse.

No lim’rick falutes very high

But for them I don’t have to try

Very hard to compose

A meter for those

Who’ll allow me to come through the wry.

The problem of course is just that

The issues we need to get at

Are growing so big

We’ll all need to dig

Much deeper than settling for pat

Answers to questions we raise,

For these are the darkest of days.

A family of crime

Places making a dime

Above all of the various ways

They could do what is best for the folks

Who don’t have the means of the Kochs

To get what they need.

Instead it’s Trump’s greed

That treats the poor like they’re jamokes.

And yet it’s the people who stand

To lose most from this dishonest man

Who continue to think

That his obvious stink

Is perfume wafting over the land.

He’s rude and a cheat, some agreed,

But they figured he’d change with the need;

That after the vote

He surely would note

What he must rise above to succeed.

For them it was less to elect

A fraud than a chance to reject

Allowing a sequel

To making folks equal.

They had their lost pride to protect.

You’d think there’d be none who would root

For a guy who is trying to pollute

Our air and our streams

By whatever means

That help his rich friends get more loot.

  

I’m happy he tweets ev’ry day.

It keeps my depression at bay.

Trump’s skin is so thin

It lets us see in

To a mind in the throes of decay.

He said we’d get tired of winning,

But when will we see the beginning?

It takes more than bluster

Successes to muster.

On con men our hopes we’ve been pinning.

  

Like ev’ry R prez gone before him,

Trump says to those folks that adore him,

He’ll lower their taxes

While Defense he maxes.

But the math of it all looks to bore him.

There’s nothing Obama has said

That Congress won’t try to retread.

Trump’d call it untrue

If he’d said sky is blue,

And sign a law making it red.

Obama had aided the plight

Of those who Assad they did fight

But Vlad didn’t like it

So Don he did strike it

He let Putin tell him what’s right.

It’s only fake news, move along.

In fact we can see nothing wrong

With getting a hand

From enemy land

They sing: The new patriot song.

Trump says climate change is a hoax.

He figures us regular folks

Can roast as in Hell

Long as cronies do well.

Plus science is only a joke.

One wonders just what it would take

For their and America’s sake

For Trumpists to see

That the source of their glee

Is the thing, not the news, that is fake.

He’s president only for glory

That’s all that there is to the story.

He holds himself rallies,

With sycophants dallies

While most of us look on and worry.

His speech to the Scouts clearly shows

How deep his pathology goes.

He crammed his sick gloats

Down their innocent throats.

It’s daily he sinks to new lows.

Ain’t no one is gonna impeach

As long as control’s out of reach.

Rs see as their job

Poor people to rob

While Dems ineffectively preach.

To watch the R congressfolk flail

While trying to make O-care fail

Is to see they forgot

That good laws need thought.

For eight years they chose just to rail.  

McCain just rose up from the fog.

Did tumors his memory jog?

The maverick is back

No longer a hack.

He must have been reading my blog. 

I cannot yet quit before noting

That “Integrity panel” they’re floating

(Though they swear to some god

That it’s all about fraud)

Is aimed at preventing Dems voting.

Thus endeth my brief change of tone.

I cut it less close to the bone.

But danger is such

That too light a touch

Could possibly leave me alone

In thinking a diff’rence I make.

So after this silliness break

It’s back to the grind

Of speaking my mind

For all of our lives are at stake.

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