The Emperor of Oz

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The Emperor of Oz

Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven’t 

got a brain?

Scarecrow: I don’t know--but some people

without brains do an awful lot of talking.

Candy Man    can,

                               but      shouldn’t,
even though     super strong

                         MaryJane             cupcakes

  cannot cure                            Trumpitis,

              those political       spin lesions

brought on by paroxysms        of        POTUS

shenanigans.

We must

      invest our hope,

           convoluted                   

                as the may be     cuz maybe 

Nancy Pee    

                can give      WE         of the

                     ambuscado,

the recipe for         french-fried freedom

                                 and equity

once damned Donald      takes

         several bites out of the       Giant

              imPEACHment,                       and

the New Normal    can be more like      the

Old Normal, except        different/better,

     much preferred   to the    political pablum

          that is spewed out of

                                             pundit pie holes,

because this time    it’s more than  the

                                             fe-males

bleeding out of every o

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                                      f

                                       i

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                                          e-- Hell, no,

Jack!  Finally we must witness the congregation

of Republican scarecrows singing:

                  If I only had a brain...

Glenn Buttkus

This is my "imitation" of Edward Estlin Cummings,
who is known for his radical experimentation with
form, punctuation, spelling and syntax.

Posted over at dVerse Poets Pub