Trumps Win

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FranktheFrank
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Trumps Win

#1 Post by FranktheFrank » 04 Mar 2019, 21:48

'Trump: 'In general, something capable of making
a decisive difference when used at the right moment . . .'
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition

A baby boomer, he remembers a time
when America was great. He saw its growth
in world influence, watched a string
of presidents operate, wars won, but one war lost.
He was there when the rust-belt economy collapsed,
when heavy industry, tired of union control,
moved to Mexico, and he saw
the blue-collar worker become poorer.

He witnessed globalisation, the outsourcing
of manufacturing, to neighbouring countries
then globally and American jobs going east.
Saw Mexico grow wealthier, their poor
and wretched sneak across the Rio Grande
in their millions. Watched the black economy
grow, an economy that pays no taxes,
does not contribute to health insurance
yet reaps the benefits of a social program.

He saw China become a leading
manufacturing nation, develop
a nuclear capability, launch space stations
and infringe at every opportunity all
agreements in a trade war. He'd made
his billions, he'd enjoyed numerous
women. He'll admit he's a letch, a grabber,
but they want it he says, they'll do anything
for money. They'll go on their knees
and bark like a dog just to get what I have.

He wanted to make president, but he knew
he had a poor vocabulary, poor diction
he has a B.Sc. in economics but he's not an intellectual.
He not stupid, he is savvy, he can read
a balance sheet, understand a profit and loss
account, analyse statistics, demographics.
He'd worked out there is a sub class in America,
resentful, disenfranchised, forgotten, despised,
and they were to become his ticket to the White
House. Who says he's not clever.

He panders to that sub-class of losers, the ones
that dropped out of college, with low I.Q.'s
who had lop sided parents, parents on drugs,
alcohol; into vice, crime, the ones brought
up in cities like Detroit. And there are the skilled
engineering technicians who can fix things, but
only if there is industry there with things to fix.

In his grandiose way, his Mussolini pout,
his slicked over hair, his odd waving
of the hands, the puppet fingers
all forgiven for that promise of a job.
He knows deep down every worker wants
a woman like Melania, and other women
too, deep down they admire him.

The arty crowd and the feminists, the pervert
generation, and the murderous 'It's our Right',
they hate his guts, but who cares, he has another
hundred billion to make and he'll make it. He knows
there's fake news and he'll use that too, he knows
how to bully, the Chinese aint seen nothing yet.
He'll sack any advisor that gets in his way and stop
their pension rights too. He's the John Wayne
of politics, a letch, a pervert, a raw so-called
Christian that bends the rules to suit himself,
but if Trump wins, he might, just might
make America great again.

Michael (MV)
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Re: Trumps Win [politically insensitive - not for hand-wringing liberals - likely to offend)

#2 Post by Michael (MV) » 05 Mar 2019, 18:09

Hi Frank

Found this prosy

editorial


recast as a political poem


uncanny, at least for me, I'm hearing the voice of Trump

This political prose is haunted by the voice/persona of Trump


😎

Michael (MV), who is not offended by what you have written here; he just doesn't find it poetry-written

FranktheFrank
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Location: Between the mountains and the sea

Re: Trumps Win [politically insensitive - not for hand-wringing liberals - likely to offend)

#3 Post by FranktheFrank » 05 Mar 2019, 18:30

Its a counter view to what I hear so often in poetry circles,
It isn't classical poetry, maybe a prose poem.

capricorn
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Re: Trumps Wins

#4 Post by capricorn » 07 Mar 2019, 02:14

Could well be read as a prose poem, Frank,

Eira

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