Thursday, December 10, 2015

nativist son


When father Coughlin railed against the Jews
he wasn't running to be president
and didn't sport orangutans' hairdos
and couldn't yet know Hitler's full intent
but fascism is back in vogue this year
among what we don't call "a certain class"
embracing policies of greed and fear
or whatever spews out of Donald's ass
the Trumpen proletariat fear jobs
too often go to those born overseas
and offer threats and violence by mobs
in what seems less and less Land of the Free
the faces change but the appeal's the same
to fall for it once more is our deep shame

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