Monstrosity

This actor,
this ego
demanding
submissive idolatry

Humanity is distracted –
controversy, like celebrity,
vying for social attention.

Opposition barks
obediently in response
to dick-waving antics

their questions only
inciting more rage –

he is inaccessible
gloating,
publicity-sapping

ignores the plight
of dreamers,
of marginalized

human rights
inopportune
for his pocket-
lining agenda

Heroic action
is called for –

there is strength
in quiet amassing
of information

the harvesting
of underhanded
self-serving
motivations

this monstrosity
must be de-throned
before democracy
is completely defiled.

(It’s open link night at dVerse, and I have compiled this poem from the prompts of Fandango (question), Ragtag Community (bark), and Daily Addictions (controversy).  Oh, and maybe I’m feeling a little riled by the gong show coming out of Washington.)

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Permission to write, paint, and imagine are the gifts I gave myself when chronic illness hit - a fair exchange: being for doing. Relevance is an attitude. Humour essential.

33 thoughts on “Monstrosity”

      1. You can see why people vote for charismatic, eloquent populists. They comfort our nastier side and encourage us to think it’s okay. But he is neither charismatic nor eloquent. He’s a nasty, semi-literate slob.

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  11. Amazing how talented poets here have been able to vent their discontent without ever naming names. We ALL recognize a dick-waving, publicity sapping, self-serving egomaniac … unfortunately.

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  13. Some monstrosities are to be pitied, like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Others are just hideous in essence. Like this one. Dethroning could well be done by means of a rocket inserted into the anal passage?

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  16. Monstrosity indeed–I like the fact we all know who you are referring to without ever mentioning his foul moniker. This last 2 years have like the Plague Years in the Middle Ages. I know people who become physically ill with the news of the day.

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