New Poem: CAPITOL HILL RAMBLE

 after the deaths and desecration the Democrats and the Republicans are set to agree in their own ways to move on and put the demon back in the bottle so people will get back to consuming, waiting for the vaccine and increasing stock prices after a few days to allow public venting and promises of a post- Presidency Senate trial plus saying pretty pretty please to the malign immovable object still hunkering down in the Oval Office making his pardon list and checking it twice while periodically looking at TV to see if anyone’s still weeping over his being silenced by social media meanwhile agitators whose names we all know refuse to resign on principle (President-elect says vote them out next election) just like the President whose poisonous water they still carry through the moral desert they choose to live in—and please remember 70 million people, some of them wanting nothing more than tax cuts, judges, persecution of immigrants and environmental deregulation, these 70 million who voted for Donald Trump and Michael Pence have to own their role in the deaths (including a Capitol Policeman) that resulted from The Donald trying to stay in office at his pleasure, almost marching democracy to the gallows erected outside 

Revised poem: Cutting Loose

I lost the monster somewhere

in the South Bay

and not a moment too soon

>

he wanted to sell me a crate

of misogynist sauce

and a dozen boxes of

seasoned prejudice

insisting I try it first

>

no thank you, I said

what's the matter, snowflake? he taunted

are you scared of

the natural order of things?

>

he kept needling me,

repeating the same

nasty invocations, epithets,

jabs, gut punches

> 

I had no replies for him--

just walked away fast

>

turned on the evening news

and the lead story was about

someone beaten nearly to death

by a dozen people who consumed

the monster's free samples

Poem NO FOOL LIKE THE DONALD--updated version.

SPY magazine

once called him "the short-fingered vulgarian"

it was the 80s

and most of us weren't ready to heed the warning:

it was easier to buy copies of

TRUMP: THE ART OF THE DEAL

and read gossip about his relentless pursuits

of women, real estate and casinos

the GOP went dither dither:

he won’t stay around that long

but Trump trumped his opponents

and he was truly ratings catnip to cable news

with not enough people getting truly upset

at the rage, racism and violence at rallies

he’s the all-but-certain nominee

with the violent ex-basketball coach

praising him for “having the guts”

to drop the nuclear bomb

so now the fate of our nation

rests on how many people are either

angry enough to vote for a billionaire

who cares next to nothing about them

or nihilistic enough

to put a blustery reality-show tyrant

into the highest office in the land

for the demented fun of it

Stupid political comment of the day from Donald Trump Jr.

Here's what a Son of The Donald said about protesters of Donald Sr.'s thankfully-canceled Chicago rally:
DONALD TRUMP JR. (via Twitter): Ha 5 students when asked why they were protesting couldn't even answer. The participation medal/micro aggression generation is pretty sad!

This is what the United States gets when a Presidential primary season is heavily influenced by bigotedremarks/boorishness/encouragement of brutality/squeamish media afraid to give up ratings dollars by reducing Trump coverage.