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A Panicked Political Parody of Yeats' "The Second Coming"
Turning and turning in the combine’s cylinder
The voter cannot hear the candidate;
Democracy teeters on the brink; reason cannot think
Mere megalomania chews on the husk of state
The red rimmed eye of avarice squints, and in the air
The stench of resentment swirls and spreads
The best are denied admission, while the worst
Hold rallies and plot their return to the oval
Surely another caucus is at hand;
Surely the indictments will reduce his castle to sand
The indictments! Hardly have the charges been filed
When a shocking image is streamed live to every screen
Troubling eyes from Belfast to Beirut to Burkina Faso
Somewhere in the frozen fields of corn
A shape with bloated body and a spray-tanned hide
A gaze rank and lascivious as a game show host’s,
Is moving its sweaty things, while above it
Reel the drones of the military industrial complex
Optimism drops again; but now we know
That years of mayhem and creeping authoritarianism
Will culminate in bedlam on a global scale
And what tangerine tyrant, his gag order loosened again,
Slouches toward Washington to be sworn in once more?
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D. J. Reddall
I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.
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Comments (3)
Troubling times indeed. How does the man continue? What is there to believe in with him? He speaks in superlatives which are empty, has provided nothing but invective and still, he rides high. Who is there to bring him low? Great poem, D.J..
Tangerine tyrant! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love your sense of humour!
Ah... the calm before the storm. Worse times are coming before they get better! Some of your phraseology made me smile.