POEM
Hillary Clinton has collapsed!
My air conditioner is on and
the radio says it is hot but
read on Fire Island and
suddenly I hear
HILLARY CLINTON HAS COLLAPSED!
It is hot at ground zero
but not that hot
and nearly dozed off
but never passed out
THE TRUMP BAN, ETC.
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Donald X
moves to the Nation of Islam.
Maybe not.
I Always Wanted a Poet to Be President
but I never thought it would be Donald Trump.
Children of Paradise
This is a very, very, very sad day:
Donald Trump was right.
Wear Your Weave
like Heaven.
Trump 2020
again!!!!
we have Donald Trump.
About the Trump-Putin Pact
In a terrible strategic error
Trump is finally turned back
at Putinberg
Haiku
An ancient pond.
A frog jumps.
Trump!
If the United States Elected a Piece
of shit would it be polite to notice?
POEM
Pennsylvania has collapsed.
that needs fixing
I mean throwing away
when Florida turns sideways
and Wisconsin runs out of votes
was it Russia?
and suddenly I hear
PENNSYLVANIA HAS COLLAPSED
the leaves are dead and
but only twice have the exit polls been this wrong
but Pennsylvania has no paper backup
Oh Great Keystone S
EYES OF MAY
My name is Stephen Miller
I know because I got it
from Stephen Miller himself
after the baby Goebbels came out to me
because he thought I had something on him.
can we get up?
DO YOU MIND IF I SKETCH YOU WHILE WE TALK?
If Republicans take Congress
the tribe of Gad and Reuben may
lose their foothold on Jordan
and then will follow a very long
passage in Numbers on Balaam
and one big ass talking himself
The wilderness swirls counter-clockwise,
a glitch allowing Moses to see
Jed Clampett at Midian and
first learn of the great Yahweh.
Clouds over the mound of Arad
thrill the strings of my heart.
Everything coming
to you will get there.
BEAUTIFUL REVOLUTION
Two mirrors feed each other yogurt.
Two mirrors feed each other shark
Two mirrors lie on their backs.
Sun bounces off their chests.
alternative universes not the ones
we talked about
travelling through caves that
roll inside one another, they do a lovely
nourishing each other.
Awaking in peace and walking
they throw dirt
to get through the night.
Two mirrors wash each other
and anoint the soles of
their feet.
Two mirrors face each
other and holler
into endless space.
Two mirrors argue
as all mirrors
are wont to do.
Two mirrors awake
in a trunk in New Jersey,
a few miles
outside Jerusalem.
A mafia don trump kisses them. The mirrors
weep isolated solitude
grinding their foils to light
JOHNNY
Was Who/Whom Do You Trust?
How would you know?
Then there was no
Wikipedia so you
how to play the fucking game
Trump does shit
While also NOT doing it
But the massive deportations
And concentration camps
Manage to reelect
and reelect and reelect
him him him though
If Only
Taylor Mead could play Donald Trump.
An Old Friend Calls Me Out Of Nowhere
after thirty-
Soft Machine
After hours Mao and Lenin
Write to turn each other on
And for no other discernible purpose.
Gauche for Communist lips
But I like them very much.
In a moment of the softest tonality
You can almost see Trump.
I Always Wanted a Performance Artist to Be President
but I never thought it would be Donald Trump.
The First Trump Super Bowl
was nothing into nothing.
Nude Piece
Donald Trump said,
richer and poor poorerrwhoo
Crazy Eddy Trump
Food is a bright red car.
Donald
Donald says he sees Liberace on Oprah Winfrey looking like
death warmed over but he doesn't call me
even though I
He needs a bath.
Did You Hear There Was an Earthquake This Morning?
I felt Trump on the Upper West Side.
The Nerve of That Trump
A Trump is nothing but nerve.
Eddie Munster
grows up to be the only acceptable House Speaker.
Donald Trump Rises in Love
Thank you for the tip.
A Trump Has to Trump
Trump
Everything you do indicates
something you're not,
Or not enough napkin.
Sunnyside
Sometimes Donald Trump says things
That seem as if they have existed forever,
Insightful and incomprehensible,
There I was
at a March 1st, 2015
Public Theater performance
of Hamilton sitting
serendipitously close
to both Bill and Hillary
but that night The New York Times
Throughout the intermission she crouched
on her cell phone, but her husband stood to greet his people.
Magnetically drawn to Bill I glided with pleasant ease through
Secret Service agents
straight to the great man
standing by his seat
in the aisle at the other end
of my section just one row in front of me. It was uncanny not knowing if it were more through the
roof to be with a popular ex-president or score a ticket to Hamilton, and I decided to talk with him
about both
the play and politics.
Waiting my turn I said,
The former president concentrated on me, and it felt
as if we were on the moon together.
tried refinancing underwater mortgage holde
assumption and the national bank because
Bill took this in as if a revelation, smiled knowingly,
and then beamed broadly as if empathizing
with a president who knew the art of striking
a deal with the opposition for a purely
very
Bill said in a savvy tone of self-recognition.
Jefferson moved toward Hamiltonian
policy early in his presidency.
he famously said in his 1801 inaugural address.
career and his presidency, he brought
At the 1980 Democratic Convention, he told
Dems to face the end of post-World War II
prosperity, to tackle depressing new problems
course nonsense
American productivity
inordinately profits from that productivity
By April 1993 the new president,
knowing he was complicit in diluting the
Republicans [now] standing for lower deficits
bill,
-Steagall,
and deregulating derivatives, banks, and telecom.
Democratic Par
that Howard Dean later popularized.
The second act announced, I told Bill,
you
he emphasized with soft Southern conviction.
Still, The Rea
can be found in the New Deal World War II economy.
Two Ways of Looking at a Trumpbird
I don't know which is worse
the death of my mother
or the death of America
My mother was a great and biblical presence
She supported
Trump but
worried I was
disappointed.
I told her I was
happy for her she
seemed to be at
the edge of her seat
when he won.
I thought the election cured her
I could tell she was short of breath.
My mother was a good person
and what can be more holy than a good person?
My mother magnified God
she put a magnifying glass
up to God.
What is it to put a magnifying glass up to God?
I think this has something to do with the other central part of Kaddish
What is it to sanctify God?
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My mother set apart what is holy
by magnifying others, making others big,
having
the extraordinary power
sanctifying God.
to delight in everything about everyone
and their children,
putting a magnifying glass up to them.
You could see that magnification in her glow.
She never gave up on anyone.
No questions asked,
I grew up thinking
all drug stores were
medicine for whoever
needed it beyond any questions being raised.
She not only knew the names and faces
of everyone who came in. She never forgot them
and knew exactly how old everyone should be
in every bubble of time.
when
I came to visi
And once a social worker in Stapleton told me
everyone in the neighborhood applying
for benefits listed my mother as their first reference
and she still is that reference.
Her life and death magnify and sanctify the name of God.
But how can anyone magnify and sanctify the name of God?
How could she make God bigger?
Well
Another way to translate Kaddish is:
God has made himself
his name BIGGER through the departed.
Her life and death magnify and sanctify the name of God.
My mother could not leave until we absorbed her.
only to leave so quietly
quietly because it was done
before she even knew it.
Mellon, who also lived 103 years, famously said,
even though
I miss my mother as my mother
Yisgadal
v'yiskadash
shmay
raba.
Magnified
and sanctified
be His great name.