the reckoning

Mark Meadows has demurred to take this fall;
Trump's chief-of-staff knows who dispatched that mob.
As perps are stood against the pock-marked wall,
to lie for Trump's no longer this pawn's job.
The party that had crushed the racist South
to share our country's blessings with all men,
surrendered meekly to the ass' mouth
who wants to blame the darker-skinned again.
Our nation's known this tribal strife before;
if Meadows is to turn us from that path,
and spare America new civil war,
he'll have to face Trump's minions, and their wrath.
Self-rule requires we each play the adult
and marginalized those who'd lead a cult.