- for Senator Daylin Leach -
Across the nation discontent’s murmur
is swelling up into crowds.
Some mourn the mysterious murder
of Civil Discourse, wrapped in shrouds.
That mammal in the White House uses
crude, rudimentary diction
and can’t discern (or just abuses)
the line between fact and fiction.
This devolution of those in power
is happening without fail;
the next commander-in-chief of the hour
may sport a prehensile tail.
If the grim reaper enters the frame
of a hominid like Bannon,
and Trump’s the wildcard in a game
he plays with the nuclear canon,
then soon we may be sleeping in streets
of a world not fit to live in.
“These protests are all fake news!” Thus tweets
our illustrious shit-gibbon.