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These are poems and fables of a particular historical moment: from late Fall, 2015, to mid-Spring, 2016. By the time you read them (if you do), you will know more than these speakers did about the significance of the seemingly momentous events unfolding during that period. But, with regard to that short time, which seemed infinitely longer, what you will find here bears witness to what many who lived through it thought and felt.


From the book:

                            THE DONALD TRUMP OF THE REPUBLIC


Mine eyes have seen the glory

Of the coming of the Trump

He is trampling out the riffraff

And he’ll take them to the dump

He will kick you in the balls

And then he’ll kick you in the rump

His ego’s marching on


Glory, Glory, what’s it to yuh

I’m a liar, and I’ll screw yuh

I’m the best and you will see

Once I win it’s Me, Me, Me

My ego’s marchin’ on


I have seen him at the rallies

Of a dozen barbarous states

He is fanning all the fury

Of their mean and spiteful hates

He has lied and bragged and bullied

through unspeakable debates

His lies are marching on


Glory, Glory, what’s it to yuh

I’m a liar, and I’ll screw yuh

I’m the best and you will see

Once I win it’s Me, Me, Me

My ego’s marchin’ on


He has raised a bully pulpit

For his insults and his rants

He will kick out all the migrants

He won’t give the poor a chance

He will mock the meek and crippled

As he boasts what’s in his pants

His lies go marching on


Glory, Glory, what’s it to yuh

I’m a liar, and I’ll screw yuh

I’m the best and you will see

Once I win it’s Me, Me, Me

My ego’s marchin’ on


In the heat of the Convention

He will strive to get his way

He has threatened brawls and riots

If he doesn’t win the day

Oh, may someone see the danger

And lop off his feet of clay

Lest he go marching on


Glory, Glory, what’s it to yuh

Trump’s a liar, and he’ll screw yuh

He’s a con man and a clown

And he’ll take our country down

Keep Trump from marching on!



A FAREWELL TO TRANQUILLITY


I wandered lonely as a cloud

Until I heard a roaring crowd

Emitting shrieks and hoots and bellows,

A mad mob of unruly fellows,

Presided over by a clown

Who worked them up by calling down

Rude curses, taunts, and threats of war

Which stoked their fury more and more.


I fled, yet still I wander, shaken.

What wrong sad path had Reason taken,

I thought, to lead to scenes like this?

I wondered, What has gone amiss?

And could not answer; cannot sleep.

New nightmares clamber from the deep  

While I am wide awake. I shiver.

My peace of mind seems gone forever.


And now my heart with horror thumps,

Trapped in this crazed new world of Trump’s!



RED MEAT


      A man threw hunks

of bleeding red meat

to a howling mob.


      Another questioned

him.


      “This is supposed

to be a democracy.

Why don’t you use

reason to try to

educate them?”


      The man turned

and stared at him for

a moment.


      Then he turned

back to the mob and

shouted.


      “I think we just

found us some more

meat!”


      Moral:  You can be

a majority of one if you

choose, but you might

end up being eaten alive.



Bruce Bennett would far rather write poems and fables about nature, human nature, love, death, and the mysteries of the Universe. Perhaps one day soon he will be able to return to doing that.


The Donald Trump

of the Republic

Bruce Bennett




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