The Donald, the Trump always was demented
of course, lost in his own special narcissistic
little ego that he’s always trying, very trying
to stretch over the whole wide world universe

While poor Biden lives his whole tiny adult life
down in the bankster bowels military industrial
complex of cold, cold war alienation from just
about anything that had anything to do with life

So this demented country has managed to end
up with these two old men both clearly already
in fail mode and diminishing away before us all
while we have been saying for many long months

No! We don’t want either one of them but they
smile and only continue on as if it is inevitable
so they’ll both be on the ballot like it or leave it
there we are with such live rounds in both barrels

Pointed directly at our poor vulnerable bellies
gonna blow our vital innards into exploding jelly.

 

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.