I didn’t know John Merrow was a poet. But he is.
Stopping by Washington on a Snowy Evening
Whose swamp this is, I think I know:
Hails from Kenya, name starts with ‘O.’
He’s been dumped. I’m President Trump
It’s time for that loser to go.
He came to Washington talking about ‘hope.’
Nobel Prize or not, that makes him a dope.
To that mope, I say ‘nope.’
Let’s go find us some chicks to grope.
That house he lives in, historic and old
Not my style. I like bold
And I like huge, and (trust me) I’m huge.
I’ll fill it with women, cover it in gold.
‘Cause this swamp’s mine, it’s for sale.
This is my moment. No way I’ll fail.
Billionaires welcome, no Mexicans please.
Just say ‘Heil Donald’ (but pronounce it ‘hail’).
I’ll fill this swamp, call it ‘Trump Lake.’
Say I’m doing it for America’s sake.
Let’s move. I have promises to break…
And lots and lots of money to make.
(Lots and lots of money to make!)
(Who wrote this poem, you think you know:
Old man with glasses, hair like snow.
You’re thinking Frost, but you are lost.
Author’s a guy with weak sense of humor, poor rhyming skills and absolutely no sense of meter)
HERE’S THE LINK: https://themerrowreport.com/2017/01/19/a-poem-for-the-inauguration/
John
I love this poem, it softened my dread.
We’ll need our art in the days ahead.
Nancy,
Art and humor will be our salvation.
You are misinformed. Trump will be great!
Specifics?
Great for whom?
As Andy Borowitz wrote today, now we are all enrolled in Trump University. God help us.
Perhaps the second sentence had one word too many, one typo, and assumed we would fill in the missing items.
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Perhaps it should read: “Trump will grate…”
To be followed by, let’s say, “on our sense of decency and honor and fair play.”
After all, need I remind one and all that, as some of his closest and fiercest supporters have stated, we should all learn to take anything to do with Trump more “symbolically” and less “literally.”
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Humor! Satire! Make SNL great again!
http://www.theonion.com/article/jimmy-carter-contemplating-dying-right-here-and-no-55098