Yellowing Memories, VI
first class reunion:
each one looks almost the same
just older,
except this bully-turned-priest
with a no-bullshit air
FYI: My tanka below could be read as its sequel:
returning home
after the class reunion
in the bathroom mirror
the same old me
and yet . . .
Atlas Poetica, 38, 2019
Added: Trump Empire, Inc, XLVI
phalanx after phalanx
of ICE-hatted alligators ...
this daymare, and yet
FYI: The Tyee, July 16: 2025: ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ and Trump’s Celebration of Cruelty: How visual symbols are being weaponized to create terror and hate.
The United States government recently opened a massive immigrant detention facility built deep within the Florida Everglades that’s been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a media briefing that “there is only one road leading in… and the only way out is a one-way flight.”
...Apparently designed to be an immigration deterrence and a display of cruelty, Alligator Alcatraz is much more than infrastructure. It is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality...
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