Wednesday, December 2, 2020

A Room of My Own: Pool Spray

The Reuters journalist keeps pushing the question. "You're just a lightweight. Don't talk to me that way!" the President says loudly with a twist to his mouth. Silence penetrates the room.

night news on mute 
my Mexican parrot yells
concede, concede ... 

FYI: A pool spray is an American political/journalistic term for an event in which photographers and other members of the news media are allowed to visit briefly with the US President. This haibun was inspired by   Business Insider, Nov. 27: Trump snapped at a reporter quizzing him about his election defeat, saying "Don't ever talk to the president that way."

AddedOne Hundred Forty-Sixth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

Faith Like a Mustard Seed

a 12-foot
monolith in the red-rock desert
appeared then vanished...
I recall the President's words
like a miracle, it'll disappear

the White House
shrouded in a cloud
of ravens 
in infectious dreams
I chant, January 20th

FYI: Insider, Nov.29: "The strange, metal monolith recently found in the remote Utah desert has mysteriously vanished" and CNN, Dec. 1: "'It's going to disappear': A timeline of Trump's claims that Covid-19 will vanish."

Added: written in response to Donald Trump's so-called "most important speech" delivered on Wednesday and for Leonard Cohen who remarked, There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

his twisted smile
and a crack in the wall 
between two flags--
the Stars-and-Stripes
and the presidential seal

2 comments:

  1. Donald Trump made his so-called "most important speech" (46-minute diatribe on the "rigged election/voter fraud") as U.S. coronavirus toll hit new record high, Democracy Now, Dec.4, accessed at https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/4/headlines/california_put_back_on_lockdown_as_us_coronavirus_toll_hits_new_record_high

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  2. Attorney General William Barr Barr finally met a Trump lie he couldn't swallow. It's a watershed in the 2020 election saga: no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, USA Today, Dec. 4, accessed at https://ca.yahoo.com/news/barr-finally-met-trump-lie-090004263.html

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