My Dear Friends and Poets:
The U. S. presidential election is in two days and I would like to share with you a set of tanka selected for reflections on this Convicted Felon and Man-Child, Donald Trump, so-called Former president and Republican presidential nominee.
S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump-branded airplane
to S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump Hotel and Tower ...
next, his face in the mugshot
with a red tie
glistening hair and an icy scowl
Donald Trump
behind the bars: one poster
signed for 2024 dollars
my pitbull
chasing her Siamese cat ...
Trump on TV blasts
If you go after me
I'm coming after you!
this old billionaire
utters streams of gripes
and grievances ...
the news on mute, I change
my crying baby's diaper
Trump fan and foe
face to face
in stony silence
at the anti/rally
their cars kissed passionately
the TV blasts
from fine people on both sides
to the enemy within ...
ten feet higher the fence
between my neighbor and me
this man-child fullmouths
frack and drill, baby, frack and drill
with a meaty smile ...
I turn off the TV, gazing
at cracked corners of my world
in dim light
I'm half awake, half asleep ...
blonde-haired old man
draped in a red-white-and-blue
cloak of impunity
FYI: For more about Donald Trump being a Child-Man, see PopMatters, Feb.9, 2017: The Spoiled Little Man-Child They Made King: Celebrity, Richard II, and Donald Trump.
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