Touched by an angelic halo, this martyr of mayhem - a poem. |
Lightly decided on, While fingering the button On a series of violations Stemming from payments To a porn star and a playmate For a magazine - Slipping past the legal criteria Of an actual case; Sending society into an extradition tailspin; The leaders of a local jurisdiction Claim a national crime was committed, And proceed to take a mugshot And fingerprints, And reveal over thirty violations For a pair of legal hush monies By suggesting that these crimes Threatened the fair and legitimate elections Of eight years ago Which stampeded the sanctity Known as a nation first policy. A lawful ownership based On the principles of constitutional, Family, dream-like, And saintly, fair purpose… The rights of a worldly icon - To seek the highest, publicly elected office - Are quickly tossed aside and derailed, In a vicious and vague, unjust process Which circumvents the given truths; A democratically owned, Republic-led, free trade And global response to economic, Climatic, and foreign enemies’ Hateful and ambitious concerns; The unruly knocking down Of the freedoms of choice And expression which separate An ideal nation from an evil And authoritarian, despotic entity… And a cliff to which communists are drawn, And the harmonies to which responsive Legislative duties are sacrificed, displayed, And duly authorized… |