What Rough Beast | Poem for July 31, 2017

David P. Miller
David Has Been Personally Selected

Does David actually HATE Obama?
Does David actually HATE Elizabeth Warren?
Does David actually SUPPORT Donald Trump?
Does David actually SUPPORT Cruella DeVille?
Does David actually WORSHIP Mitch McConnell?
Does David LOATHE Jimmy Carter??
Does David VILIFY the Dalai Lama???
Does David ACTUALLY HATE Mother Theresa???

All. Hope. Is. Lost.
Drop. Your. Pants. It’s. Over.
Pack. Up. Go. Home.
We. Will. Win. This.
Punched. In. The. Gut.

BREAKING: Trump SHOCKED
BREAKING: Trump CACKLES

Is David IGNORING Michelle Obama? Why?
Is David ACTUALLY LAUGHING at Chuck Schumer? Why?
Is David PINING for Laura Bush? Why??

David, we’re BEGGING
David, we’re PLEADING
David, we’re SOBBING
David, we’re DEAD INSIDE
David, we’re SHRIEKING in NAKED DESPAIR
David, we’re STARING VACANTLY into the PIT
David, we’re THROWING OURSELVES on the FLOOR,
POUNDING OUR FISTS and KICKING OUR FEET
David, we’re CATATONIC

BREAKING: Trump BLUBBERS
BREAKING: Trump ASCENDS into HEAVEN

Elizabeth Warren just SCHOOLED Rachel Maddow (wow!)
Bernie Sanders just TOOK DOWN Nate Silver (wow!)
Paul Ryan just BEHEADED Mitch McConnell (wow!)
Donald Trump just MUTILATED Tweety Bird (wow!)

BREAKING: Trump CHA-CHAS in PURGATORY
Is David going to do NOTHING?

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David P. Miller is the author of The Afterimages (Červená Barva Press, 2014). His poems have appeared in Meat for Tea, Main Street Rag, Ibbetson Street, riverbabble, Muddy River Poetry Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, Painters and Poets, Fox Chase Review, Third Wednesday, Oddball Magazine, Incessant Pipe, Lyrical Somerville, and Ekphrastic Review, among others. His poem “Kneeling Woman and Dog” was included in the 2015 edition of Best Indie Lit New England. David was a member of the multidisciplinary Mobius Artists Group of Boston for 25 years, and is a librarian at Curry College in Milton, Mass.

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