Second Coming No. 87 — April 16, 2025
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House
Chad Parenteau
Face Hugs Leopard
“Trump Voter Says He Doesn’t Regret Choice Despite Wife’s ICE Arrest”
––Newsweek headline, March 19, 2025
Thanks to the authorities,
I know where my property is.
She makes enough of a racket,
they’re not going to lose her.
I am apex predator in waiting,
giddy to be next level trained.
Got the jawline of a provider,
already down for the next hunt.
Beasts have glommed onto me.
Symbiotic––or is it the other one.
Their warm breath, tinged with
blood loss, purrs me to sleep.
Chad Parenteau‘s most recent poetry collections are All’s Well Isn’t You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts. His poems have appeared in Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, and other journals, as well as in the anthologies French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets (Louisiana Literature Press, 2007) and The Vagabond Lunar Collection (Vagabond, 2024), among others. He is associate editor of Oddball Magazine, co-organizer of the annual Boston Poetry Marathon, and hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series
Indolent Books and editor Michael Broder are back with another poem-a-day series as a creative response to the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House. The plan is to continue for all 1460 days of the 47th American presidency.
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