the opening tanka of my new tanka sequence, Nothing Less Real Than Reality, written in response to the new Reality Show produced by the White House
Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that MAGA hat wearers get at the Real Meaning of things.
-- paraphrasing my favourite artist, Georgia O'Keeffe
I
the president
claims, we have already won ...
a stray dog
in the lamppost shadow
answering another
Added: Nothing Less Real Than Reality, II
the President yells
they're finding Biden votes
all over the place --
my Champ cocks his leg
under the Four More Years sign
FYI: Joe Biden has a dog of the same name, Champ (short for champion), and he is nearing 270 electoral votes...
