by Ernie McCray
I can’t help but wonder why
we’re making it possible
for Donald J. Trump
to become our president again
when he once failed at the job miserably,
nodding off in the oval office,
waiting for a ride, from time to time,
so, he wouldn’t miss his tee time.
And this time he, in essence, figuratively,
wants to blow our democracy away,
all caught up in thought processes
that lead him,
in his wisdom,
to feel that there are good people
on both sides of the divide
when it comes to racists
and victims of racism,
his moral compass so erratic
that it allows him to try to steal votes
and blame it on other folks
with no hesitation,
or turn thugs loose in the Capital Building
with nooses and weapons
and just keep on stepping,
thinking of himself and nobody else,
a jive dude prone to do anything
as long as it’s the wrong thing to do,
like bragging about getting rid of Roe v. Wade;
stealing classified documents and storing them away;
speaking of wars as though armed conflicts are
a lark,
a mere leisurely walk in the park,
claiming he would end the war in Ukraine
in one day,
like somebody off his meds,
one might say,
so out of touch with reality;
calling war heroes suckers and losers,
declaring that wounded veterans are unworthy
to march or ride in a military parade,
ideas that once would have gotten
him run out of the USA,
especially since he, perhaps more than anything,
would like to be bosom buddies
with Vladimir Putin, a vicious tyrant
who is no friend of ours …
Oh, I could go on for hours
about this wretched son-of-a-gun
who hasn’t ever done
anything that’s beneficial to anyone,
save offering a few tax breaks to billionaires
I mean who has ever seen him do anything loving
like trying to provide citizens health care benefits,
or taking on the NRA to prevent fools from letting loose with shooting fits,
or trying to address homophobia,
or poor race relations,
or bringing Arabs and Jews together in some way.
And now because we’ve enabled him to build up steam,
he’s ready to fulfill the dreams
that are inherent in a Project 2025 scheme
that’s designed, basically,
to take away
so many of the protections
and opportunities
we Americans enjoy today,
relentlessly paving the way
for him to live his fantasy
of being a ruler someday
who gets to have everything
go his way,
with no concerns whatsoever
about generations
who will have hell to pay someday
because of the carbon emissions that will continue to heat earth’s air
and wreak havoc that will be beyond repair
if he satisfies his desire to
“Drill, baby, drill”
and get at the oil beneath us that he calls “liquid gold.”
This demon of a man has no soul
and if we truly want to defeat him and deny him his goal
of destroying
all the good that has been achieved
since our country began,
we’re going about it a bit slow
as he’s on a roll.
We’ve got to get on the go
and stop this man before it all blows.