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I make poems constantly about oddities
and offenses in American political practice,
how one president sent bombs, jets, and drones
for use by a rogue state and its murderous army,
while his successor decrees death for crimes
including killing a police officer, while pardoning
even most violent offenders of the Capitol invasion,
that led to various deaths, police officer
injuries, suicides. Now for even more horror,
the anticipated, unnecessary future death
by tens of thousands, and millions, from America
pulling out of the World Health Organization
and the Paris Climate Accords, and his threat
to take back the Panama Canal while attacking
the late President Carter whose period
of official mourning remains in effect. I can
go on making a list but soon everything
will blur while I pray that somehow God
intervenes on the right side of history
this time, Ok Deus. Show yourself
before you too become a virtual coin, a digit,
going bling on the desk at the Oval Office.