So the purpose of this blog is to be a space to practice creativity. I am currently using it as a place to record a single, unedited poem for each day in 2019. While I attempt to write everyday, I may not actually post daily. Instead, I will post poems as they are completed, but one for everyday of the year. Not sure I can make it, but we'll see. It's fun to try regardless :)

Thursday, January 9, 2020

Poem: January 8, 2020

Mr. President

Bellicose and corpulent,
puffy, crass and petulant,

city bred and country fed,
an orange and artificial cad,

his weathered hide belied, belied
by snowy white around his eyes,

veneer of lies and lies and lies,
as flaccid as his power ties,

such little wisdom, such childish cries,
a nation's tantrums realized,

a hammer of anxiety,
a hateful cup of weakish tea,

bloated sushi stuffed with shame,
chaos sport, envy game,

mind full of scraps, friend to bomb,
source of waste and shattered norms,

obfuscation and Twitter storms,
contracts torn and soft core porn,

such woeful aches of slow reform,
as our nation wakes to cage and harm,

and democracy's structures procrastinate,
shocked and awed. Too late, too late.


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