blood season

Appealing to the basest racist base,
his patron Putin comments on the news
not to imply Trump didn't win the race
but--if there's meddling--blame it on the Jews.
Election year in Russia's turning black
corruption long ago dimmed what was Red
what dissidents his GreenMen haven't whacked
keep finding novel ways to wind up dead.
Twin autocrats, straight out of Orwell's text
fuel old conspiracies of the Far Right.
It takes  no genius to divine what's next;
they'll blame their crimes on someone who can't fight.
Those who have eyes, see where he's coming from
with Easter, come new calls for a pogrom.