Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Man-Child Tanka

Game Show, 2024, LXXI

this man-child fullmouths
frack and drill, baby, frack and drill
with a meaty smile ...
I turn off the TV, gazing
at cracked corners of my world

NeverEnding Story, November 3 2024


For more about Donald Trump being a man-child, see PopMatters, Feb.9, 2017: The Spoiled Little Man-Child They Made King: Celebrity, Richard II, and Donald Trump.

And Special Feature: Selected Tanka for Reflections on This Convicted Felon and Man-Child, Donald Trump


Added: Game Show, 2024, LXXII

Trump fan and foe
face to face
in stony silence
at the anti/rally
their cars kissed passionately