Game Show 2024, XVI
written in response to the Loser-in-Chief's "death and destrcution" post
Trump Indicted
on Times Square's billboard --
tourists come and go
a night of smiles
Trump indictment live updates
as I take a dump
FYI: This is a sequel to Special Feature: Poems Selected for the Happiest Day in 2023: Trump Indicted
Added: Game Show 2024, XVII
a reportage tanka written in response to New Yorker staff writer Clare Malone's remark on the non-stop Trump news cycle: It’s important to cover deviations from historical norms that Trump and others have made and will make ...The challenge of covering Trump was that his entire Presidency was a Deviation.
S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump-branded airplane
to S.U.V. motorcade
to Trump Hotel and Tower ...
next, he's fingerprinted and charged
Added: Game Show 2024, XVII
written in response to The New Yorker reporter Eric Lach's remark on Donald Trump in the courtroom: "all the former President could do was sit and listen."
flanked by his lawyers
the silent old man looks
small ... and smaller
FYI: the Loser-in-Chief/Donald Trump is now charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying hush-money payments to porn star and Playboy model, Stormy Daniels
Added: Game Show 2024, XVIII
post-arraignment party
at Mar-a-Lago royal palms
heavy with crows
FYI: LA Times Column, April 4: Donald Trump’s pity party at Mar-a-Lago
Donald Trump, once the most powerful man on Earth, threw himself a pity party Tuesday night... Indicted, booked and fingerprinted, the former president scurried home to his safe space at Mar-a-Lago, where surrounded by sycophants and other grasping hangers-on, he whined.