Thursday, November 10, 2016

confused, perplexed and befuddled


(now is not the time to acquiesce

          go away hurt

we need to let our voices be heard

our needs be known

our issues remain relevant)

 

if you were an orb eyed alien

a few solar systems away

pointing a telescope at earth

you would not see today

but events of our distant past

which is a good thing

 

welcome to trump nation

 

i’m a clean cut middle-aged straight white male

and strangers who mirror my image

approach me

wanting to see how i feel

about our boy being elected

i deflect with respect

say

he is now our president elect

and walk away

 

what can i say

about a man whose campaign

blamed all your worry and woe

on a group of people

 

someone else did that before

oh yeah

hitler

 

i’m more disconcerted

that it was the people

who made him our next president

 

he gets to pick

the next supreme court justice

swing the majority vote

i imagine there will now be challenges

to the hard won laws

previously upheld

that insured equality for all

 

one of the strangers said

that anyone associated with

black lives matter

should be put in jail

 

only time will tell

the fragments that will remain

as we sift through the ashes

his administration will create

by burning the constitution

 

this country needs to heal

but that will be hard to do

when national health care is negated

and very few can afford

to see a doctor

 

and women lose more

than the right to choose

 

oh and the idiot who genocide

that gay night club in orlando

 will probably now be given sainthood

 

but corporate taxes will soon be cut

because that’s a rut

that stagnated the betterment

of the working class

 

one stranger said the latinos

(not his word)

will leave

when they are no longer allowed

to have jobs

 

whitey wants a vacation

from the mental duress

of having to share

the abundance of this nation

 

so they’ve made america

a clown college

and trump the dean

of administration

 

at least we will have fewer rights

we need to memorize

 

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