Head Hits Stone

“he said what he meant
he meant what he said”
Trump’s fixed fact idea
delusion of the gilded age
making the workers pay
all taxes on consumption

what a bloody in red mess
ghost dancing off the cliff
cargo cult to such depths
of despair & a depression
just a fixed idea delusion
taken to point of self-harm

and suicide of his self itself
last chance gamble falling
& falling and such a failing
empire killing most itself
one last so fatal final act of
misguided mass destruction

 

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.