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Monday, January 6, 2025

January 6th U.S. Capitol ATTACK Haiku

the winter woods
dark and deep into my dream
January 6th



(FYI: Ls 1&2 ironically allude to the concluding staza of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost:

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,   
But I have promises to keep,   
And miles to go before I sleep,   
And miles to go before I sleep.

Axios, Dec. 26, 2024: Trump's first day: 59 things he promised to do on "day one:" one of 59 things is "pardons for Jan. 6 rioters"

And Daily Beast, Jan.5, 2025This is Sickening’: Trump Slammed for Jan. 6 Take at Secret Mar-a-Lago Bash)


Added: Between Heaven and Hell, XVII

Making America Trump Again

alone, soul-exiled
from Trumpland with its lies
and hush money,
I binge hour after hour...
Jan. 6th hearings

once blood-stained
the Capitol's arched portal ...
in two weeks
the Convicted Felon will take
(the oath and) the Power


(FYI: Watch the 10-day Jan. 6th Committee Full Hearings.  and The New York Times, Jan. 5‘A Day of Love’: How Trump Inverted the Violent History of Jan. 6
The president-elect and his allies have spent four years reinventing the Capitol attack — spreading conspiracy theories and weaving a tale of martyrdom to their ultimate political gain)