COVID-45
It’s simple, really, your method of bending
the base instincts of the masses.
Convince them that yours is the one true reality.
Smother them with promises, but deliver the opposite.
No one in their right mind would replicate you,
yet the pool of hosts open to contamination
by your vile presence grows exponentially.
If only they would wash their hands of you.
Surrounded, as your are, by sycophants,
the only thing missing is a crown.
This is my response to Poetics: “Bartender, I’d like to close out my tab-oo,”
the prompt from Amaya at dVerse Poets Pub.
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odd and interesting 🙂
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Thank you. We live in an odd world.
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Your loathing of the political virus at hand is very will stated in your poem.
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Thank you, Dwight.
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Amen!
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👍 Thank you.
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Yes Ken. We have another Mad King 😡
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Sigh.
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Oh, spot on! That video is truly creative.
If only COVID-19 could get into COVID-45’s closest circle … the rest of us might enjoy THAT two-week quarantine …
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Thanks!
Then there would be a witch hunt to find the Democrat responsible for poisoning him.
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Surely … all quarantines end in reality.
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Timely, yes indeed.
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Thank you.
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Pleasure Ken
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That’s brilliant, Ken. I was wondering if you would crown him at the end. I’m sure you’ve seen comparisons made between him and King Joffrey from Game of Thrones. First time seeing him compared to COVIS but it’s spot-on.
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ah! this hits so sharply. that crowning (or absence of it) is so powerful
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Thank you. 🙂
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Perfect fire, Ken. Thank you …
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And thank you, Steve.
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I like the recommendation to wash our hands of the virus.
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Thanks, Frank. If only.
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I’m speechless Ken. This struck to the heart of the matter.
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Thank you, Linda. If only he would be speechless.
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GROAN. I know.
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A thing can only grow exponentially if we provide a conducive environment for it to proliferate. Enter divided, outspoken, screen-addicted America. If the ‘virus’ isn’t fed with a bloodstream of maga hats, then it’s fed with airborne vitriol meant to defame. I wish we’d all just give COVID the silent treatment. Still, very creative poem and yes, let’s just wash our hands (of him, but also of any virus who’s power-obsessed.)
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Thank you.
I washed my hands long ago, but its resilience is unnerving.
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Some people just lend themselves to this comparison. I wonder if this virus is orange…
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I wouldn’t be surprised.
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Tangerine dream
Orange nightmare.
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How ‘Orange’
‘This Virus’ ReLates..:)
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‘Spreading like a corona’ would soon become a synonym for success.
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Ironic.
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The pandemic is a weird litmus, is it not? Showing us who we really are in the face of an invisible threat. America’s President is running around like a naked emperor. We need to open up a new bar for coronavirus poems. It’s really a brand new metaphor in need of explicating in every direction.
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Unfortunately, the potential is limitless.
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Crowned in corona, the king still stands naked
pretending
to know that his hunches will rule.
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He needs a new tailor. 😉
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