what happens when the
most powerful nation in this world
elects a teenage ego throwing
tantrums for president?
with delusions of being
the bigliest bigliest bigliest
president
& greatest greatest greatest man
of all time
We the People
are mesmerized
by celebrity charisma––
we can no longer parse
reality from reality tv––
peace from war––
law from anarchy––
the free market from grand
larceny
we find our democracy
in desolation––
completely polarized
& all our principles
of promise to the world
are dimmed
our new gospel is
fear, distrust & greed
our rich are growing
fabulously richer––
the rest of us
are descending into
grief
our laws are being
unhinged & our guns
unholstered
our supreme court
is affirming the prejudices
of earlier times
& dividing amerika
at the heart
our religions
don’t want to be
separated from the state
any longer
& the president
wants unlimited powers
for all the laws to fully
embrace his corruptions &
his nepotisms, & his emoluments
& his whims
republican was not his party
but a means to an end––
republican politicians
abandoned any principles
they might have had
for a chance to grab whatever
power they could
the country ends up flagrantly
reflecting the brutality, the hate,
the anger, the testosterone, the selfishness & the pure self interest that sustain the withered heart
of their president
he has no sense of
United States––
he urges, rather, a red v blue war
to end all wars
& the erasure of all
his enemies
he doesn’t like women or mexicans,
or blacks, or immigrants, or muslims,
or scientists, or democrats, or hillary clinton, or dreamers, or haitians, or africans or hispanics
he enjoys promoting his personal
interests––
his family & his brand
he admires the greased
bodies of strong men, oozing
with unlimited power & blood
on their hands
he boasts of his selfish
mind with his limited vocabulary
to proclaim his bigliest thoughts
in reactive tweets &
furious telephone visits with the
red media
he is incapable of empathy
& would gladly trade true love
for higher media ratings
he is addicted to himself
& fox news
only he can save us
with bombast & flip-flopping
stubbornness
our nation is no longer
governed by a congress, a judiciary
& a constitution––
we are governed by the willful
blindness
of one man––
e pluribus unum––
if “out of many, one” has any
meaning left––
it means “one man”
all trust in democracy has
been perfectly trumped––
descending downward
into the swampland
of fake news