Thursday, August 9, 2018

№ 396: RIP'd From The Headlines?

Welcome to Donald's Trumpocracy.
This compound of terror-theocracy
with more than a hint of hypocrisy.
This rob-from-the-middle kleptocracy.
This condemn-the-other mobocracy.
This rule by, at best, mediocrity.
The inevitable end of democracy.
(It would have been simpler
had we heard a whimper.)

Trump's admin's, ahem!, a bit  just! — erratic.
His tweets ever more melodramatic.
While displaying a flair somewhat ungrammatic,
his preferences lean t'ward autocratic.
His heir and his hair so “aromatic”.
I would for a change something anti-climatic.
(Anything OTHER than policy!)

Did the founders foresee
it would be traumatic 
being led by a man 
with bats in his belfry
who in an unkinder time 
to be emphatic! 
would likely be
confined in an attic?
And yet, there are those
who he makes ecstatic.
So, I suppose,
this is democratic
and demonstrates with great clarity
precisely what's wrong with democracy.
(Time to abolish
Electoral College?)