Thursday, December 13, 2018

№ 486: Non, Je ne regrette rien


Guardian: From fixer to inmate: Michael Cohen reckons with his 'blind loyalty' to Trump


The president’s former right-hand man was tearful as he accepted his three-year sentence: ‘I deserve that pain’

To hear Cohen tell it – breaking down in tears – he was a man undone by loyalty to Trump.

I know this may strike people as odd
but I actually thought Donald was God.
He, to us mortals, seems arbitrary
and being near him can be very scary —
all the demanding and pouting and shouting.
What, I now wonder, kept me from doubting
that he could be the Divinity?
Was it the generous salary,
which he (albeit) reluctantly offered
when I burnt offerings humbly proffered?


Or, in other words