THERE'S A NON-ZERO CHANCE our future is past;
that Donnie the First is Donnie the Last;
that he ends voting (and the Constitution);
that he restores football (and also pollution);
that he restores football (and also pollution);
that bills of attainder will be back in fashion
(if they don’t interfere with the passion to cash in
of his flocking parvenu oligarchs,
his Gospel-trumpeting moral loan sharks,
or his Ayn Randy Darwinian “winners” —
atheists unwelcome at Wednesday church dinners);
that the first shall be first; that the last remain last
(as they have been forever — present and past);
that the U.S. experiment will come to be seen
as a flop; that we regress toward the mean.