how are the mighty fallen

The world takes note of waning influence
as it's described by secretary Gates.
Our course--as set by TrumptyDump and Pence--
like Agamemnon's, can't defy the Fates.
The Kremlin's puppet boasts of what he's won
but meekly does whatever he's been told.
His masters dictate what needs to be done;
"our" foreign policy's been bought, and sold.
Four years elapse--we'd so like to forget!
Trump comes again to face the public polls
Oblivious of Klytemnestra's net
he longs for shiny bling, but grasps just coals.
The yutz whose only joy is to campaign
beholds his second term swirl down the drain.