day THREE HUNDRED and THIRTEEN

the guy with the book on trump

winning the presidency

comes up to me hands me the book

and says,

hey, have you read this?

i look at the cover

and there’s trump and there’s bannon

clasping each other’s shoulders

like the devil shit-packers they are

and i say….yeah….i’ve read it

the guy with the book on trump

winning the presidency says,

yeah, but, like…is it good?

i tell him that it’s all right

i tell him that i didn’t like the ending

but he doesn’t laugh at that

the guy with the book on trump

winning the presidency says,

no, like, if  read this will people

think that i’m smart?

you mean other than the mouth breather you are?

i want to say

but, instead, i hand him back the book

i tell him

they’ll think you know something about

trump and why he won the presidency

they’ll think you know stuff

about stephen bannon

cool, says the guy with the book on trump

winning the presidency

before he leaves me

to get up

and go wash my hands thoroughly

just like i did

the last time that i held the book

on trump winning the presidency.

--John Grochalski