the State of Nature

Obama dug us out of 'Cheney's Slump'
but still was subject to the Right's attacks.
That fringe embrace the moron Donald Trump
who can't forgive the sin of being Black.
Discounting wisdom coming from a face
that doesn't need vacation to look tan,
Trump's cultists' politics revolve on race;
they disregard the merits of the man.
"The government's the problem" Reagan crowed
and maybe he believed the words he spoke.
At least that's what the teleprompter showed
and no one told the geezer that's a joke.
Leviathan can spare us Nature's ills
it's Trumpty-Dumpty's insouciance that kills.

what madness is this?

His geniality served Reagan well
when nouns and syntax all began slip.
He gazed into the teleprompter's well
and few could tell he'd wholly lost his grip.
A nasty man projects his character
as if the flaws and sins were not his own
and somehow, blame should all attach to her
when now the onus falls on him, alone.
Dementia steals Trump's only competence
no logic now connects his web of lies
increasingly, we'd settle for mere Pence
for whom brute power's not the only prize.
The oldest president we've ever known
is mad as Lear, but clinging to the throne.

October Surprise

directors Coats and Comey testified:
the president attempted to suborn
investigations of why Flynn had lied
in violation of the Logan norm.
Obama's sanctions needed time to bite
'til Russian gold reserves were nearly spent
but Trump claims not to know it wasn't right
to masquerade like he were president.
Our Chief Executive is always one
the president-elect must bide his time
until inauguration's sworn and done
to play the diplomat must be a crime.
Like Nixon's, Reagan's team sprung a surprise
but--unlike Trump's--they knew which parts were lies