The Gospel According to Donald
Where is the sanity, amidst
all the vanity, within
that white house?
Should we assume
all the doom and gloom
it predicts will come to pass?
There’s nothing great about
a nation centered
on paranoia,
or a leader
who bloviates only
to satiate his need for attention,
not to mention an obvious penchant
for lying when faced
with reality.
What of the sheep
who willingly swallow
his hubris and hatred as gospel?
The prompt for Day Two of NaPoWriMo is to write a poem that invites the reader to continue the process of reading even after the poem ends, by closing with a question.
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“The use of it’s name, propagates it’s fame.” @J.E.Goldie
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Sigh.
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Sorry I was annoyed at the time I posted. You did your job. Tell it like it is. Right? 😐
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My sigh is over the fact that we have to consider him at all. 🙂
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I know my friend. I’m a Canadian and he even scares me. I just don’t understand any of it. We’ve lived relatively peacefully and free to cross borders and now few of us want to. Keep doing what you do. That’s why I follow you. oops a rhyme… lol
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🙂
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Preach! Keeping my eye on 2020.
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Thanks. Here’s hoping.
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Good questions…(and endlessly asked it seems) (K)
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Thanks, Kerfe. Hopefully just for two more years.
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It can’t come soon enough.
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I love the structure of this poem. Great take on the prompt today. You pose a question I can’t answer.
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We both used the word hubris today. Nice. 🙂
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Ah, yes, but yours is such a Brobdingnagian tale!
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What of indeed? I’m scared about him winning again–his supporters don’t care about the lies or the incompetence, they simply cheer on the awfulness.
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Love your choice of words, rhymes in this. ‘Bloviates’ a new one for me 🙂
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Thanks, Janice. 🙂
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That’s what scares me most – that he even has followers! He’s like the leader of a cult….so dangerous. 😟
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Cult is a good analogy, with finger-pointing and accusations thrown at opponents, while their own leader’s transgressions are merely incidental.
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