No image, in deference to
our sensibilities.
If I numbered the problems
we face in this world
in a book, or a poem,
in a book, or a poem,
it would fill us with gloom,
and an enormous and hellish
sense of doom.
It would become
instantly legend.
Like a fat orange man
Like a fat orange man
in a trance of self-love
(and "other"-hatred) whose sycophants
line up to kiss his ring
line up to kiss his ring
because he is - weirdly -
unfathomably - objectionably -
- incomprehensibly -
- incomprehensibly -
famous.
When you look in his followers' eyes
you can see they're in a trance,
hop to his little dance,
deep in their orange bro-mance.
The people took a turning.
Soon the best books will be burning.
Too late, too late
to go back to the starting gate.
Where Shay's Word List took me.
It all boggles the mind, doesn't it? No one on earth is less deserving of adulation than this man, and yet there he is, with his red hat cultists. I love your apt descriptions of him! And many thanks for not making my eyes sad with his picture!
ReplyDelete"The best books"? You struck a political nerve. Books for the ages, from Aquinas and Luther to Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder, are being censored while people are screaming about the lack of interest the public show in shiny new books about how your four-year-old can grow up just like brand-killer Dylan Mulvaney.
ReplyDeleteThe Left lost this election by failing to recognize how that sort of thing turns people against them. If they'd actively denounced censorship and rallied around Kennedy, the Ds could have swept this election the way the Rs did. Mainstream Ds have said no word about the censorship of people (like the writer of this comment) who called attention to the dangers of profitable products. They've said no word about the censorship of classic books that are not full of sex and violence, but contain independent thought. They've treated parents' saying that books about rape and incest might not be the ideal way for twelve-year-olds to learn about sex as if the adults wanted to burn the books (I've recommended that all adults read "The Handmaid's Tale" for a long time, but I certainly don't recommend it to children). Then they wonder why all the Ds who have popular appeal, Trump as supposedly self-made businessman, Gabbard as ultimate tough chick, Musk as genius of his generation, and Kennedy the eco-warrior, campaigned as Rs.
Many lifelong Rs detest Trump, even if Harris's idea of campaigning made us hold our noses and vote against her anyway. Criticism of the Second Trump Administration should focus on the other party's failure to STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN.
PK, who wanted to vote for Ds this year, and did, only their names were marked R
Now that it's on the screen my original comment looks too long to be a comment on your blog, so feel free to delete it if you want to. I appreciate your satirical rhymes, even if I *am* just a teensy-weensy bit bitter about the D Party and censorship.
ReplyDeletePK
When we play with words/word lists, it's like a Rorschach test, all the worries come floating to the top, as big as the ego-bloated figures we have as our leaders these days.
ReplyDeleteI especially liked "you can see they're in a trance,
hop to his little dance,
deep in their orange bro-mance."
That "dance"! Everyone's so easily entertained while wars go on endlessly and children die needlessly in battles over real estate.