It can happen here

Coy Nazis pull the strings in Trump's regime
now Priebus and Sean Spicer've both crapped out.
This president's not playing for our team;
both major parties failed us--in a rout.
The Spencer/Miller tag-team caught Trump's eye
White faces bleating hatred, preaching loud.
Supremely unconcerned citizens die
when racists ram their cars right through a crowd.
Vile policies that Germany renounced
three generations back, resurrect here.
Black souls dispatched to Hell perversely bounced
to found an empire on our basest fear.
Their rhetoric to "Make our Country Great"
cosegregates with codes like "eighty-eight".

spy vs spy

To target self-reactive killer-Ts,
chimeric leukocytes present a way
while money's lavished on oncologies
arthritis may be what makes CAR-Ts pay.
The cytosol lets cancers' defects hide
surveillance misses what goes on in there.
But TCRs displayed on the outside
announce their targets brazenly, and bare.
'Though failsafes circumscribe a white cell's role,
they'll sometimes pick a fight we do not need.
As killer clones escape their mete control,
a doctor wants new tools to intercede.
When maladaptive leukocytes run mad,
build chimeras to curb T-cells gone bad.

schooled

His parents found that Don lacked discipline,
so packed him off to military school
where spare-the-rod's accounted as a sin,
and no one's paid to tolerate a fool.
We don't know what first tripped his folks' alarm
to think the beatings'd do the putz some good.
Psychiatrists attest there's lasting harm;
years later, spankings still give Donnie wood.
His cabinet's stocked in patina'ed brass
who like to think he--sometimes--reads reports.
But Don daydreams they'll keep him after class,
to drum the lesson in on his damp shorts.
Despite his party's homophobic norm
Trump can't resist a man in uniform.

trade wars II

The word from Harley-Davidson was blunt:
this TradeWar's hurting workers now and here.
But economics make no sense to Trump;
his strategy's all zero-sum and fear.
A second Gilded Age gleams poised to bust
as Management drives Labor to its knees.
Another factory's consigned to rust
as manufacturing flees overseas.
A labor sector Democrats long owned
went elsewhere as Bill Clinton wooed big banks.
With each betray'l class consciousness gets honed
and Socialists enlist more in their ranks.
A world ablaze, sparked by one demagogue
who's dumb enough to wrestle with a HOG.

trade wars

The word from Harley-Davidson was blunt:
this TradeWar's hurting workers now and here.
But economics make no sense to Trump;
his strategy's all zero-sum and fear.
A second Gilded Age gleams poised to bust
as Management drives Labor to its knees.
Another factory's consigned to rust
as manufacturing flees overseas.
A labor sector Democrats long owned
went elsewhere as Bill Clinton wooed big banks.
With each betray'l class consciousness gets honed
and Socialists enlist more in their ranks.
The Revolution's hour draws nigh to strike
as Paul Revere roars in astride his 'bike.

unCivil

The White House Nazi cell's now down to two
just Kellyanne and Stephen hold that fort;
one Irish bigot joins one heartless Jew
twin arguments for freedom to abort.
Their peoples battled uphill to belong
believing that America was great
but now, their scions got our myths all wrong
they're in, and mean to slam the Golden Gate.
Obama sought a world post-partisan
to heal the rifts that Gingrich tore so wide
instead, obstructionists have plainly won;
they'd banish anyone not on their side.
Purblind to what our constitution's for
they think they'll somehow win a civil war.

Miller's time

Joe Goebbels' doppelgänger's making news
for crafting speeches and Trump's policy
outraging Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, and Jews
and anyone who's had a family.
A Richard Spencer follower from Duke

as immature as any brat of nine

gave thugs in Charlottesville no least rebuke;

he deemed those Nazi marchers "very fine".
But now, the public's woke, and been in touch.
For want of morals, Trump must lean on polls
and guarding Miller's back might cost too much,
to keep him on, would show who's in control.
Trump's starting line-up's almost all retired.
It's long past time that  Miller, too were fired.

Goebbels jr

The Nazi cell that fulminates at Duke
set Stephen Miller's inner demons free.
Ideas to make a maggot gag, and puke
he advocates as racist policy.
The march his Führer planned for Charlottesville
raged on, while impotently cops stood by
'though Spencer's too effete--himself--to kill,
the plan was always: someone's gotta die.
Trump's aegis still enfolds this loathesome geek
diverting prosecutors from his scent
himself a party to this fascist clique
a "palace coup" sprung by a president.
Rank nativists who'd bar the Golden Gate
mistake FreeSpeech for license to preach Hate.

creature of shadow

Joe Goebbels' doppelgänger's in the news
he writes Trump's speeches, driving policy
outraging Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, and Jews
and anyone who's had a family.
His own, disowned him for abundant cause
they've seen the human cost of peddling fear.
Still, Stephen's quite contemptuous of laws,
he just mis-cites them as suits his career.
But now, the public's woke, and been in touch.
For want of morals, Trump must lean on polls
and guarding Miller's back would cost too much,
to keep him on would show who's in control.
Trump's starting line-up's almost all retired.
It's long past time that  Miller, too were fired.

Gill v Whitford

The gerrymander cause just lost a year;
the BigLeague sent this case back to the farm
to start the journey over, tier by tier
Wisconsin failed to prove it suffered harm.
Concurring, Kagan chipped in major clues:
the First Amendment's key to Kennedy.
A next case must be tailored to his views
on how Association can be Free.
November must play out on the old map;
we'll weigh Efficiency another day.
Incumbents smirk; they're propped up by this crap,
but no one can defend the current way.
When "representatives" select their "base"
"republic" is a lie, and our disgrace.

unAmerican

the policies that Stephen Miller wrought
betray key values we've held ages long
still, that's the deal Republicans have bought;
so far, they stick to Trump although he's wrong.
His mother was a Scottish immigrant
who came with empty hands, to make a life
but our amnesiac unpresident
denies the provenance of his own wife.
Those "huddled masses, yearning to be free"
must be disowned, now that the Trumps got in
if still Melania shows sympathy
Trump makes exceptions just because she's kin.
Dog-whistles to the basest of his base
circumlocute, but correlate with race.

loyalty among thieves

Trump's lawyer's legal team has quit, en masse.
They've sensed the shifting tide, made for the hills.
Before their client sinks in his morass,
they'll hit him up for his outstanding bills.
Evade! Delay! Deny! And obfuscate!
He tried their strategies; each bigly failed.
no options left, Mike must cooperate;
The SpecialCounsel's hounds are on his trail.
A Brutus closer than Trump's current wife,
who knows where all the skeletons lie hid
can wield old banking records like a knife
attesting what the Kremlin's puppet did.
Trump impotently rages, pouts, and screams
as Cohen goes to bat for Mueller's team.

loyalty

Trump's lawyer's legal team has quit, en masse.
They've sensed the shifting tide, made for the hills.
Before their client sinks in his morass,
they'll hit him up for his outstanding bills.
Evade! Delay! Deny! And obfuscate!
He tried their strategies; each bigly failed.
no options left, Mike must cooperate;
Khuzami's unrelenting on his trail.
A Brutus closer than the man's own wife,
who knows where all the skeletons lie hid
can wield old banking records like a knife
attesting what the Kremlin's puppet did.
Trump impotently rages, pouts, and screams
as Cohen goes to bat for Mueller's team.

Caesar's wife

Trump's lawyer's legal team resigned, en masse.
They've sensed the shifting tide, made for the hills.
Before their client sinks in his morass,
they hope he'll settle up outstanding bills.
Evade! Delay! Deny! And obfuscate!
He tried their strategies; each bigly failed.
Mike's seen the light, and must cooperate;
Khuzami's team's tenacious on his trail.
A Brutus closer than the man's own wife
who knows where all the skeletons lie hid
bank records clearer than a gleaming knife
attest to what the Kremlin's puppet did.
Trump impotently rages, pouts, and screams
as Cohen goes to bat for Mueller's team.

Sean's boy

Trump's White House leaks like none has leaked before
as staffers vie to catch the boss' ear
recruiting Donald for some private score;
what FauxNews hasn't broadcast, he can't hear.
Communication's all through Hannity;
the Chief of Staff's been rendered impotent.
The Normal channel's pure futility;
no saner voices reach this president.
The chaos Trump exults in, Kelly hates;
he knows efficiency, and this ain't it.
Strategic thinking never resonates,
but Trump's as happy as a pig in shit.
His minister without portfolio
sets policy right on his TV show

Punch and Judy

Trump claims "a very special bond" with Kim
'though no one's clear exactly what's agreed
each preens, to think the world's in love with him
and takes their gushing words for 'complished deeds.
Like Chamberlain in Munich, long ago
Trump boasts he brings us "peace" and courts the press
but Kim's the winner in the status quo
and Trump's still digging, chin-deep in his mess.
Stale pleasantries ambassadors should trade
their propagandists praise unto the heights
as if substantive progress had been made
but neither spoke a word of HumanRights.
Contemptuous of diplomatic ways,
twin childish despots, desperate for praise.

ronin

As Kochs retire, Pompeo's value wanes
he brings no insight, no great expertise.
As talent's fired, and only dross remains
it's less impressive that he aims to please.
In Kansas, it's enough to know a Koch;
the contracts others fought for came with bows.
He knew which bloated egos one must stroke,
when everything depends on whom one knows.
But now, his patrons face mortality;
he'll have to earn a living on his own.
The market's soft for empty flattery,
and Washington's a cold town, all alone.
What Kochs had groomed, a Trump may fire, instead
unless that silver tongue gives awesome head.

renown

The arm that Beowulf can  bear, by right
was Grendel's 'til he took the Danes for meat
corporeal reminder of the night
when Denmark learned the value of a Geat.
Between their raids along the British coast
Danes recognized (some) Britons as their kin
familial liaisons of guest, to host
were critical in lands without an inn!
Like Hrothgar, Beowulf produced no son
at last, there's only Wiglaf at his side
no dynasty inherits what he'd won
and only poets know how well he died.
The king who gets no heir's got something wrong
bards build their patrons' ancestry through song.

succession

The arm the Beowulf can  bear, by right
he won in Europe at the wrestling meet
corporeal reminder of the night
all Denmark's honor rested on one Geat.
The finest Sheffield blade can't make a nick;
grim Grendel's hide was proof against such harm
but leverage and flexors did the trick.
His Geatish charm left enemies disarmed.
His gracious host and hostess have no son
to guard the realm when monsters stalk the moor
nor daughter to reward the doughty one
a surer ward than steel, or oaken door.
The Chaos dragon coils beneath all things
to strike when she detects infertile kings.

despotic II

The OLC opined ('74)
no president can pardon his own acts.
But Trump conceives his role as something more:
a despot, unconstrained by laws, or facts.
His legal team, stocked from the bottom shelf,
contends the lack of precedent's no flaw.
To sit as judge, and jury for oneself
is natural, for one above the law!
Our Framers feared Executives amok,
and pointedly let Congress hold his leash.
But Mitch McConnell doesn't give a fuck;
no villainy could move him to impeach.

Trump's  crisis dwarfs the standard Watergate

but Congress--since then--opts to abdicate.

Despotic

The OLC opined ('74)
no president can pardon his own acts.
But Trump conceives his role as something more:
a despot, unconstrained by laws, or facts.
His legal team, stocked from the bottom shelf,
contends the lack of precedent's no flaw.
To sit as judge, and jury for oneself
is natural, for one above the law!
Our Framers feared Executives amok,
and pointedly let Congress hold his leash.
But Mitch McConnell doesn't give a fuck;
no villainy could move him to impeach.
Trump's crisis, long abrewing's at our door;
Buchanan's cost a bloody Civil War.

sink-holes

The walls of dirt must come as a surprise
as Trump's subsumed beneath the White House South-
lawn. Earth's not quick to cut off most men's lies
but clods of clay now clog his lying mouth.
The fate of Korach, or Persephone's
reserved for gross exceptions in this life.
But Donald earned the chance to try to please
his master Satan as submissive wife.
Forever on his back, beneath his lord,
obliged to breath his master's sulfur breathe,
the Book of Daniel warned of his reward
from which there's no relief, in life, or death.
The wages of his moral turpitude
are due to every contractor he screwed.