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Damn Dissonance
“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your own
body.”--David Levithan.
One
Thank the Lords of Democracy
the Moron, Bully, Liar, Sadist, Fascist
Trumpster is gone,
exiled to Mar A Lago,
soon faded and forgotten,
just a smudge,
a blood stain on
the pages of History.
Two
Damn,
Trump is far from gone,
as Republicans are on queue
to kiss his ring;
exiled like Napoleon to Elba,
who re-emerged and failed again,
soon re-exiled to St. Helena.
The Donald vows to return,
with a new enemies’ list
and a thousand new lies to spread.
Even though he is banned
from Twitter and Facebook,
he appears on Fox daily,
clinging to the Big Lie
like a deranged idiot.
If he stays out of jail,
he will surely fail a second time,
and might get impeached for a third time.
Perhaps at that point
he will be exiled to Flint, Michigan.
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One
Hallelujah,
we have an embarrassment of riches--
three successful Covid vaccines,
with a fourth one on the horizon.
Here in America,
we are already 45%
vaccinated, and CDC restrictions
are dropping off us
like dead skin after a bad sunburn.
The light burns brightly
at the head of the tunnel.
We are over the hump,
galloping into the Home Stretch.
Two
Well, it turns out that
Republicans, Trump basers, and vaccine deniers
threaten to prevent the rest of us
from ever achieving “herd immunity”.
Look at India, whose prime minister
used Trumps playbook,
and is presently experiencing
a rabid berserker of a second surge,
creating a new variant,
and achieving negative numbers
of the sick and the dead,
never seen before,
as cremations pyres burn in the streets
and parking lots 24 hours a day.
Death struts with impunity,
and the News videos look like
the Second Holocaust.
Glenn Buttkus
Palinodes
Posted over on d'Verse Poet's Pub
8 comments:
"prime minister used Trumps playbook, and is presently experiencing a rabid berserker of a second surge,".. yes it's horrific what's happening in India these days! I couldn't believe my ears when the news came regarding the ritual and millions of people involved (not wearing masks) and in return the chaos spreading. It's outrageous that no restrictions were imposed in the first place! Lord have mercy.
Sometimes reality defies belief. How we continue to put up with this BS across the globe must mean our creator is tired of us and wants us to self-immolate.
I back up FB on removing his active status. He and his kind are best left to garbage.
Also, the pandemic is still raging. Don't think we can get that herd immunity yet due to some stupid folks. That is life, sighs.
The hard ‘d’ in the alliterative title sets the tone for your fist palinode, Glenn, which is picked up in the ‘blood stain on the pages of History’, the comparison with Napoleon and the words ‘deranged idiot’. Whenever I see his name or his face, I switch off, physically and mentally.
Herd immunity is a myth, especially in huge populations in which so many people don’t believe or just don’t know that Covid exists – until it gets them.
I do believe the virus has a better chance of standing the test of time than Trump. Whether this is a good or a bad thing, I don't know. Better to be rid of the both of them! You have summed up well the ambiguity of our times.
Glenn, you written what many of us are thinking. Fours years are going to fly by, and then what? I too hope he goes to jail because if not...see I can't even say it.
A vivid and accurate description of the current state of affairs, point counter point.
Up here in Canada, I having been taking a break from following US politics since Trump exited, but I'm beginning to feel that existential threat to all that is good creeping back in,
JIM
It seems like authoritarian rules are becoming the new normal... Trump and his followers seem to be what we should be expected going forward...
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