Trump Poems

Trump And Nixon

Collusion on the bridge

Deep Throat in the garage

At two in the morning

Espionage and subterfuge

Make for intrigue

                              tomorrow

There always the urge

To preserve the status quo

Even if it is slipping

Into insanity

Power corrupts the vulnerable demented

Brilliant or focused

On goals that mean so much to me

Wounding justice

Crippling freedom

Spying on the citizenry

Paranoid and vindictive

Certain in their victory

Trump and Nixon

Surmounted the rule of law

Behaving like they were immune kings

When they were actually temporary stewards

Of the nation’s presidential office

Not to be confused

With dictators

Or authoritarians politicizing the police

And our intelligence community

©  2017    Claude Mayers

More Guns

More Guns

 

More guns

More high school kids

murdered

scarred forever

inside their disbelieving heads

Why can’t adults

Supposedly responsible for their safety

And their innocence

Stop this senseless

Celebration-upon-celebration of death

Recurring

Horrific

That a lobby

Built on hate and fear

Can eliminate background checks

Which the NRA once favored

In olden polls

When the bullet was sacred

For defense

Versus a malignant government

Stripping us of our freedom

As it had in the colonial past

But now it seems

That we have a world gone mad

In which killers fester

Dragging their guns to school

As if life’s just another

Violent video game

Starring them

Prominent for a minute

Upon the popular viral

Tragic cyberstage

© 2018 Claude Mayers

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