As we wait for all the pretense to depart
We now remember ye olde austerity start
Fifty years ago with Tricky Dicky election
Of the secret “Peace Plan” as deflection

From the sabotage of Johnson’s ceasefire
The “October Surprise” to end such dire
War crimes of Vietnam, the long genocide
Where what the people think and decide

Can have no effect on precious impunity
By legal envelope bubble of their immunity
That they use to shatter our common unity
And to fracture our last stand community

With the perpetual war of oligarch tyrants
Plunder of these corporate imperial pirates
Oh, purveyors of demagogic scapegoat rants
This stew of mewing asslicking sycophants

Currently taken over courts & people’s house
Drained the swamp into ye olde White House.

 

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.