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King of Fools
“No, you can’t always get what you want, but if you
try sometimes you get what you need.”
--the Rolling Stones.
Nixon had
an enemies list.
Jane Fonda
was on it,
Elvis was not.
He didn’t know me.
If he had, I’m certain
I would have
made the list.
In the late 60’s,
most of us hated Millhouse.
We liberals flocked together,
believing
that the enemy of my enemy
was my friend.
Later we suffered through
eight Republican years
with George W. Bush.
But Junior was a dunce,
and you shouldn’t hate
a disabled person.
Dick Cheney pulled the strings,
and he was worth hating.
But then our worst nightmare
descended upon us,
and we endured
four frightening fucking years
with Trump; disguised
as a Republican,
Little Benito turned out
to be such a loathsome troll
that he even nullified
the old adage about
keeping your friends close,
and your enemies closer--
because the Donald
never had any friends,
just a line of employees,
ass-lickers, sycophants,
and red-necked sheep.
He has proudly betrayed
everyone who ever got close to him,
playing the victim, always, always
devoid of blame.
His love affair with himself
has contributed to
the death of tens of thousands
of his followers, a student
of Stalin; he won’t be satisfied
until he has killed millions.
His latest super-spreader rally
in Florida is a case in point.
Yet millions more
kiss his ring, anoint and worship him.
Go figure.
Glenn Buttkus
Posted over at d'Verse Poet's Pub
9 comments:
Strange, Glenn, I had opened my own poem with the line "to the blind a one-eyed man is king" and "the trumpet" was my subject as well. As always, your words are masterful,
This is incredibly potent! The world has been through so much in the past decade, hasn't it?
Glenn, is it wrong of me to hope that there is a mass die-off of red-necked sheep? Maybe mother nature knows what she's doing.
How right you are Glenn. As I sit here in Florida and see that every county in the state of Florida has more Cov id cases than anywhere else in the country, except Arkansas, my heart aches and my hatred for that bastard Trump is consuming. Over 500,000 dead on his watch and his sycophants and blind fools think he is the second coming 😡
Evil is personified now. We all know what he looks like, sounds like, I have mentally erased him from my mind from reality. I may stand against something he says or does, an agenda I may oppose — but the man as a person, as an entity to even consider NOPE he is dead to me!
For the life of me, I'll never understand the attraction to him that followers have. It's baffling. Spot on Glenn.
All so true, Glenn. I've never understood the attraction either. He is horrid creature--mentally and morally stunted. I hate even more the smarter minds who kept him raised up when they could have brought him down any number of times before he became president and after.
Very entertaining to read, Glenn! I'm so glad he's been banned from Twitter though. Social media has become less toxic again without him. And how fascinating that Jane Fonda was on Nixon's enemies list? I wonder why? Perhaps she wouldn't date him? Great poem! :-)
Jane Fonda protested about the Viet Nam War, as did many celebrities
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