there's insight here, but it's dim:
there is a dark shore and a dark morning and a man
in black who is not Johnny Cash,
splashing ketchup on the walls
down the length of the White House halls
heedless of the calls for a resemblance of sanity.
It's taking place in the 21st Century
whistling past the Arlington Cemetery
where genuine warriors and heroes repose
and God only knows
who else...
what's happening is a shit show of epic proportions
that only those trapped in a menacing China or Russian or Iran
can fathom.
what we have here
is fear
uncommon for such a freedom-loving people
in their own heartland,
but the clown and his circus
are spreading hatred among us.
time now for the good folks
to see thru this con man hoax
by calling out the cruelty, the indifference to open civil society;
not to take shelter behind veils of piety,
to get really really angered at the power grab.
oh, what we once had!
America, the beautiful.
