The Trump nods out in court so suddenly
I know he must have the sleep apnea on-
board his hulk of bulk bursting out sleeves
body of processed fast food engorgement
of fat and salt and sugar pure carbohydrate
flab flapping behind his tie and desperate

Pretensions while old Sleepy Joe is ever so
careful to always appear total wide awake so
energizer cute is this Biden mechanical doll
walk always looking for his next hand hold
and frisking about in the activated landmine
fields of natural result of the past U.S. crimes

Chain of karmic cause and effect that Trump
doesn’t even think about as he goes on traip-
sIng here and there and jumping up and down
without a thought while good old Sleepy Joe
is now Genocide Joe bouncing up and down, too
madmen on the burning deck New World Order

As the ridgepole of the flaming roof burns thru
and the floorboards send up these great spirals
of sparks under the demented stomp-clomp feet.

 

James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.