bring in the clowns

Josh Hawley pumped the crowd, with sweat-slick fist
exhorting them to roar, charge, and obstruct.
On top of insurrectionists' death-list,
Mike Pence looked very likely to be fucked.
The gallows we could see, the bombs they'd brought,
the magnetometers that flashed and beeped
bode ill for any target who'd get caught;
be that the Speaker, or Trump's very Veep.
The clowns live-streamed the felonies they've done
as if what's not on Facebook's not quite real.
In fancy dress, to keep their treason "fun"
while claiming what they'd grabbed was their bastille.
Death fetishists, aroused by chains and ropes
make common cause with losers who can't cope.