New Poem: MTG vs AOC

 it’s the children’s magazine comic Goofus and Gallant come to life

 Goofus is now named Marjorie who peeps through mail slots

 refuses to do hard work with others on actual legislation 

 much easier to torment Alexandria (Gallant) for QAnon pleasure

 Congress is now the new stage for extremist performance art

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 the center-Left, saying “see Marjorie’s latest video outrage”

 becomes unwitting spreaders of ideological disease

 all over social media at Alexandria’s (and public) expense

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 America, this is the divided House you chose to build

 

New Poem: Not Giving Way

big old dinosaurs stomp and roar
yellow orange President
wants to re-persecute immigrants
to further harden hearts without minds
maintenance man from recent past
talks of circular firing squad
almost 18 months before election
House mother tells young daughter
I’m not ready to advance your ideas
just wait your turn, stay patient
then a few years later,
I’ll think about it and say no
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hey reasonable dispassionate Democrats
the middle of the political road
will lead to the barbed-wire ditch
and re-elections and rationalizations
and third-party scapegoating
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I don’t want to live through this again

New Poem: 2020 FORETOLD

both parties have paid almost two years of rent

on the National Electoral Battlefield

so let the cable news speculation run rampant

and allow the online and print media to join in

with lots of chatter about electability

also please don’t impeach the President

because it messes up the timetable

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brush away any Green New Deals

plus talk of Medicare For All

not to mention Free College Tuition

keep Incrementalism alive by

dry repeats of “how do we pay for this”

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smash the hopes of young voters,

children and teens taking Civics classes

and the yet-to-be-born

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teach them how the concept of Change

doesn’t mean real change for the better

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instead, it’s merely a shiny buzzword 

used by a minority party

as a giant crowbar 

to separate power

from the majority party