Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Not at the table, Then on the Menu Gembun

Trump Empire, Inc, LXXI: 
a gembun written in response to Mark Carney's Davos speech on the first anniversary of the Convicted Felon sitting behind Resolute Desk:

Clapping of hands and thumping of feet to the claim: "If we're not at the table, we're on the menu."

my black cat returns
with a bloodied bird in mouth
drums of a trade war



For more poems about Trump's one year in office, see "To the Lighthouse: One Year in Poems: Trumperica, Revisited"


Added: Trump Empire, Inc, LXXII

Canada lives
because of the US, Trump claims 
fart on fart in Davos


Added: Trump Empire, Inc, LXXIII

In the end, we have only whistles and the ICE agents have guns.

freezing cold ...
snapped from school to trap parents
five-year-old as bait


Added: Trump Empire, Inc, LXXVI

rings of five colors
link continents as one
outside the stadium
fists, voices rising as one:
"ICE out and justice for all"