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Trump
sing 
let's all tell truth to power! 
the people's will is a precious flower! 
here is the big ugly truth 
what we want 
how we think 
who we think we are 
somehow the truth got out of its cage 
it spits 
it sprays venom 
had we not fed it enough?
here is the big ugly truth 
and look at it 
how it consists of lies 
how it blathers
most men wish some 
return to the womb
the locker room
it speaks from 
is the dinosaur stem of the brain 
wanting to rule the world 
just by grabbing 
they love it 
they'll let you do
this is the big ugly business
all tower 
no taxes 
consider this truth 
from every angle
how it shines 
as it bulges
and crumbles to fat
big ugly mug
the leer 
the tongue contorting 
not just to fork 
but forcing 
forcing a way in 
his tongue in your head 
how do you feel?
is it getting hard to breathe yet?
the gag reflex is there
I know you'd rather not 
give this thought 
but I must insist 
to show you 
here is the big ugly truth 
consider this self estimation 
it is a measure of our worth 
do you accept?
do you decline?
will you pull the lever?
you know who's the boss 
big leer 
suck this
if you don't like the work 
there's elsewhere
I will build a wall
this is the big ugly truth 
I'm all wall 
I'm the catastrophe 
you for called for 
I'm the bankruptcy
the trick with the lawyers
why do we even need an election?
let it just be me 
let the others go to prison 
you'll never catch me 
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drain the swamp 
and you will find 
this one 
ogre of it
the name caller
the curse maker 
the smear-who-walks
won't shut-the-fuck-up
he is all-confiding 
conspired against 
pants-full-afire
nose longer longer
where should we put 
the old-man-leering? 
octopus man? 
he leans 
he goggles
he vomits speech
here's what he throws up 
he says it – 
I have power
I abuse it 
I have position
I misuse it 
I have privilege 
bow down all 
no, other way round 
bend over 
touch toes
bring me my viagra 
bring it on a gilded tray
I have some cruelty to do
where's the heart? 
and where's the soul?
no, these things mustn't matter
a finger points
fist punches air 
this is reality
this is the big ugly truth 
what we want 
how we think we rule the world 
who we think we are 
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you're voting for the boss again?
and how's that worked for you till now?
let's play a game
of be ourselves 
let's all be brutes 
let might be right 
let money be our king
an end of dissimulation
I want 
I say it 
gimme!
mine! 
deliver home the truths
the truth!
the truth of who we are is ugly 
the truth of how we came is worse
how is it the West was won?
do you think we came down from the trees with kindness?
do you think it was looking after each other made great?
do you pay taxes?
do you, fools?
your duty is to be amoeba
who says society is civil? 
let's lose our money 
let's lose yours 
let's all go to hell 
the lights are brighter there 
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this is the big ugly truth 
like wishes from a dream once woken 
if only a wall would protect the world from it 
he's building a concrete condom 
but takes it off for the paradise stroke 
he sprays his wad in your face
how else will they learn
of the pitiful trickle
that's his economics 
will you vote for this?
who's boss? 
whose boss?
tell them what they want to hear
be their truth-made-flesh 
slouch to be born
there's no ceremony of innocence to drown
you see the grade school girls on the stairs
time brings them to your bed
nations are no different
grab them by the pussy 
they love it 
widen the gyre!
here's a world diplomacy
imagine those lips on yours 
that tongue twirling 
his breath yours 
two hearts beat as one 
United States of Americans! 
you have this choice
he breathes your air 
and he can breathe through you 
this business is for the whole human race 
remember Hitler? 
they voted him in
you only have to do it the once
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as citizen of the world 
I call you to your truth
say now 
will you be more or less than this?
or are you equal to?
myself?
I cast my ostrakon 
I cast the demon out 
here is the big ugly truth 
consider
will you consist of lies? 
yes once you had an ugly thought
we all did 
did we bow to this?
make the lie our life?
the republic must not summon this 
not this one
not this time 
nor ever
this is the swamp 
the swamp in person 
we speak the truth 
speak truth to power
we make resistible this rise

 
Can't contemplate how it all got this far!
ReplyDeleteA monster of a ranting, raving poem.
ReplyDeleteI'll take that as suggesting I got the genre right, Myron
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