Photography © Edward S. Gault
1.
Quack quack
the orange duck
puts on his jack boots
2.
marching orders-
krupp two three four
krupp two three four
3.
firing squad-
Musk’s minions
Trump’s chumps
4.
inflation-
what you get
from a blowhard
5.
Humpty Trumpty
sat on his wall
eating omlettes
you can’t afford
dan smith has written some poems. He enjoys listening to the music of Tinariwen, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Pharoh Sanders and David S. Ware and watching Billy Wilder, Preston Sturgess and John Huston films and reading the poetry of Frank O’Hara, Ada Limon and Baudelaire with these being ones that come most readily to mind.
Edward S. Gault is a poet and fine arts photographer living in Brighton, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in Oddball Magazine, Spectrum, Wilderness House Literary Review, Interlude, Currents, and Encore. His poetry collection, Airhead and Other Poems was published this year by Read and Green Books.