Trump Empire, Inc., III:
once upon a time
Rome was a Republic ...
my teacher laments
gazing at the White House
in the gathering dark
the dumb, no,
dumbest trade war in history ...
with news on mute
I see the MAGA neighbor
piling up boxes of eggs
this storm of thoughts
in my recurring dream
King Trump's head
sliced open with nothing in it
except a wall nut
warm bedside light --
Isaac Asimov flies me
into the Milky Way
to mind-witness the fall
of a galactic empire
FYI: It might be interesting to do a thematic comparison reading of the first entry of Between Heaven and Hell to reflection on what things have changed over a short period of less than 4 months in Trumperica.
Two Americas
the White House
surrounded by a metal fence
ten feet high ...
this is America, and yet
the other America
this chilly night
stretching thousands of miles
behind the day
November 6th, the veil thinnest
between Heaven and Hell
Not Going Back
painted in large blue letters
on the billboard
in autumn morning chill
Not crossed out with red paint
raindrops stream
down Lady Liberty's face ...
in my mind's eye
atop the White House roof
the stars & stripes upside-down
And The New Yorker, March 8: America’s Founders Feared a Caesar. Has One Arrived?
Julius Caesar pressured the Senate, won popular support by fomenting class warfare, and sported a combover. The constitutional scholar Jeffrey Rosen discusses the parallels.
The Washington Roundtable speaks with Jeffrey Rosen, the president and C.E.O. of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit, about how America’s Founders tried to tyrant-proof their constitutional system, how Donald Trump’s whim-based decision-making resembles that of the dictator Julius Caesar, and what we can learn from the fall of the Roman Republic. Plus, how the Supreme Court is responding to the Trump Administration’s broad claims of executive power.
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., IV
in morning chill
to the clicking of cameras
MAGA, MAGA ...
row upon rows of migrants
with hands and feet shackled
FYI: Time Magazine, March 11: U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., V
plunge after plunge
the stock market bleeding ...
to reporters
red-eyed King Trump shouts,
shut up about egg prices
FYI: USA Today, March 9: Don't worry about eggs or a Trump recession. The billionaires will be just fine.
And Al Jazeera, March 11: ‘Bloodbath’: US stock market sheds $1.75tn after Trump’s recession remarks
Tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 plunges 3.81 percent, its steepest single-day loss since September 2022.
Added: Trump Empire, Inc., VI
King Trump's meaty smile ...
phalanx after phalanx
of red-hatted men
chanting, tariffs are a tax cut
Make America Great Again
FYI: King Trump's mouthpiece, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, claimed on March 11, "Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people....”
Added: Re-Homing in the Maple Land, XXXVII
the wind blows away
what a homeless family
left behind ...
footprint after footprint
in the snow-covered park
Added: Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CLXVI: "military watch"
burning olive groves ...
the weight of thick gray and black
blanketing
over the West Bank families
under military watch
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