Monday, January 30, 2017

Rasputin

Dick Cheney spoke against the Muslim ban
like Mattis, Kelly, and Mike Pence as well.
But Bannon goaded Trump to be a man
and tell the sissies they could go to Hell.
Why should a new Crusade  provoke alarms?
Just crush the Orient to serve the West!
It's good for donors who export the arms
and he's attentive to their least behest.
I barely care which of the two's to blame
if Trump has any clear thoughts of his own;
who ever wrote it, the result's the same.
I'm frightened by the tool behind throne.
We'll have to haul dual tyrants into court
to cut their reign of outrages off short.

3 comments:

  1. You write at least a sonnet a day. And you write haiku too.
    I admire your creative energy. Keep up the good work!

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    1. I'm pleased to gain a reader. It sometimes seems a lonely enterprise

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  2. There's so much to read online that people are not going to "discover" your blog unless you make yourself known. If you want a bit of unsolicited advice, publish your poems, not just in Professor Wolff's blog, but everywhere you can. I imagine that that can be frustrating and disappointing, but as the Bible says:

    "I returned and saw under the sun, that the race is not the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all."

    I promise to check in on your blog from time to time. Take care...

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