Tuesday, June 23, 2020

day TWELVE HUNDRED and FIFTY THREE

Reading Tyranny in Time of Crisis

As an outline
for the Days of Rage
known as The Trump
Administration

Is read as a should-be
Bible
for resistors

not unlike the one
he holds up
outside St John’s
church in DC

blaspheming the holy
words in a blatant
act of self-promotion

The real take away here
is the man who plays
a president on TV
walking past walls

of obscene phrases
and political rants
with him as the subject

words that represent
a sadness in the world
so deep the tear gassed
peaceful protestors cried

Even Jesus wept.

--Alan Catlin

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