Take a Breath

Take a Breath

We now need –
To take a breath.
Stand back –
And then reflect.

Generations gave their lives –
To preserve and unite our Nation.
We now have insurrectionists –
Calling for State cessation.

They chose a bed to lie upon.
His mattress hid a pea.
For years and years, he’s peed upon –
The likes of you and me.

Your bets were on a loser –
Who cheated on his wives.
Grabbed women by the pussy –
And hid porn stars from our sight.

He gamed the system –
Behind your backs-
Indifferent to your plight.
All of his shenanigans –
Hidden from your sight.

A self proclaimed billionaire?
Who takes your hard earned wages.
He exceedingly, eagerly greedily grifts –
On multiple Circus stages.

Donations that you send to him –
All hidden from your sight.
Plunder his sole purpose –
For warranted illegal plight.

He does not run to save you all.
He only sees himself.
For prison is what waits for him –
A cell – one toilet – can be grim.

What a fall from such a height.
Fighting back – as a child might.
Using his money – That’s not right.
With ads he’ll grift you – late at night.

Saving America, not his game.
He’s only in it for his gain.
D. O. J. With 91 counts –
A Bain to His Fantasy –
Sovereign Name.

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NEVERMORE Donald

NEVERMORE Donald

Once while in mid-flight weary –
As I slumbered weak and bleary.
Mumbling flowed from a man so dreary.
So, I Listened to his babbling lore.

“A not so quaint forgetful bore.”

While I nodded, I heard him yapping.
On my seat – he came tapping.
Rapping and slapping his old fake tunes.
Mouth flapping words HE’s famous for.

“Incontinence and nothing more.”

Let never ending sorrow soar.
For those who broke the oath they swore
For those who sought votes to “BORROW”
For Electors who would blindly follow
Whatever – HE’d implore.

The raving craven GOP.
“Un-indicted.”

“NEVERMORE.”

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My apologies to Edgar Allen Poe

The Artful Codger

The Artful Codger

I’m not “CHARLES DICKEN” around.
With this poem you have found.

Be astounded and astute.
On this journey we are bound.

I am the “Artful Codger” –
A Pickpocket in M.A.G.A. Crowd.

Surely, I’m a thief, –
For stealing their belief.

Releasing them from –
The Church of DON.

Diverting them from –
The path they’re on.

Explaining things like –
Right from wrong.

Retrieving them from –
The TRIP they’re on.

Restoring to them –
A sanity gone.

Revealing to all –
Cult leader’s CON.

Reprieving them from –
LITIGATIONS LONG.

Concealing them from
COP-A-FEEL DON.

NO MORE PLEASE! –
HE yells from CELL.

The story you tell.
Will not break my spell.

For I am Rasputin.
Spitter of lies.

I will win all –
As this Country DIES.

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Advice to M. A. G. A. and Trump’s Lawyers.

My advice to M. A. G. A. and Trump’s Lawyers.

If you scratch a dog, you will have created a lifetime job.
Sorry, M.A.G.A., but you scratched that dog.
Trump’s whole life exemplifies a large feral K9.
A trailer trash breed of K9 minus six K’s
Dragging you along with his leash.
So you give up on your destination and follow him.

If you stop scratching his inflated ego, he will bite you.
Stop praising him and he will pee on you.
He will take a dump anytime anywhere on anyone,
then wipe his rear on the oval office presidential seal,
And finally chew up the U.S. CONSTITUTION.

So, my advice to any lawyers willing to defend this werewolf.
Get paid a very large nonrefundable amount up front. (Fat chance)
Follow the facts. (Real facts not Trumped-up fiction).
Do not lie to the press.
Do not Lie in court.
When you’re finally pressed to lie by “BARKY DROOLY POOPY DOG”,
it’s time to excuse yourself from the case.
And maybe start looking for your own lawyer! cry

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NOT MY TYPE

NOT MY TYPE

Pulling hair and ripping out.
A Marriage ending boxing bout.
Rape then seemed his last resort.
Lands him now in State Court.

Eugene Carroll,
though now she’s old
To defend herself, she must be bold.
Time has come, she cannot fold.
” Don’t know her“, the press HE told.

Boldly screaming,
“She’s not my type“.
In deposition a photo shown.
He pointed to his wife.

His finger landed on Eugene.
For In DON’s Mind
his wife he’d seen.

A stand in for ex-wife all-right.
Who – Apparently – was not his type?

 

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Slavery Not so Bad

Slavery Not so Bad

 

“45” enjoyed the world they had.
“Great Again”, once again.
Flavorful – these words to him.
Enforce beliefs he’s always had.
“Slavery – not so bad”.

“How they ‘came’ here”, very sad
I’ve heard stories, Oh so bad.
But my people say they’re lies.
For in their minds, they fantasize –
That Trade Winds actually saved their lives.

“Christians” say they saved their souls,
And they were taught a trade.
On auction scales, they were weighed –
In sweat and toll and lash were paid.

Uncounted in the ground were laid.
Lives denied who could not brave –
The daily sting of master’s hand –
In unforgiving foreign land.

Then Donald says, – in grave voice.
“Why are they so mad ? –
Status quo should be their choice. –
Kidnapping was NOT BAD”.

M.A.G.A. longs for what they had, –
Pines for days, gone by.
Donald only sits and sighs. –
“So Sad. So Sad. So Sad”.

Nothing we do –
can make them whole –
After all that they have paid.

Now FAUX CHRISTIANS only hope –
To make THEIR history fade.

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Pendulum Politics

pendulum swinging

One arcs to the left.
The other to the right.
They pass in the middle,
Keeping each in sight.

In perpetual motion
This Swinging flight.
Stinging each other –
A continuous FIGHT.

Coming to rest
At the middle of arc.
They’d find common ground.
A great place to start.

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Flag Humping

illustration of Trump fondling and kissing the USA flag

Our
Flag Humping
Desk thumping
Wife dumping
Paper flushing
Document hoarding
Debate ignoring
Dumpster filling
Donation sucking
Insult throwing
Shady dealing
Office holding
Result denying
Impeached reeling
Lawyer needing
Repugnant leader

A souring flavor
This Maga savior?
A Pious Christian
Who can’t remember
A single passage
From the book he held
For Photo op. That day.

The Book upheld
For photo op.
An upside down
Swiftly Borrowed
Never read –
Fictional
“Family” Bible

If only he could be the one,
To give them what they’ve “earned”.
Unseen, unheard their voices blare.
He brings them only halfway there.
This savior for whom they’ve yearned.
He robs them blindly, – beyond repair.
Sowing fear then hate and more despair.
They vote for him. They just don’t care.

All their secrets he might blare.
Gov. officials should not share.
Opposing him they dare not go.
His hold on them we do not know.
A charlatan he’s always been.
This Racist Russian Rasputin.
We outside – can only stare.
We’ll never understand –
The sucking hold he has on them –
Or why they love this man.

Attribution: cartoon by Clay Bennett Chattanooga Free Press