The so-called president who we’ve watched
led around in advanced state distracted daze
with ankles become cankles and his memory
lost in public lapses, oh, what did he just say

As apparently his kidnap raid of Venezuelan
Prez (and his wife) assures him he’s a global
emperor (in his own mind) crowned himself
Napoleon in his own frontal lobe swiss cheese

Brain so he threatens the Columbian Prez and
Mexico, too, and demands control of Greenland
as he threatens Iran in midst the regime change
violence that leaves 1000’s dead while at home

Here in the U.S. his new army of I.C.E. recruits
are killing people in cars accusing the victims
of weaponizing their vehicles a tactic deployed
by Border Patrol racists back in Obama regime

And just as the Border Patrol is brought in, too
for the mass round ups in Midwest Minneapolis
and the U.S. (that is us) is killing folk in multiple
countries with drone strikes and hellfire missiles

While the few cities still left with viable economies
at home are overrun by agent orange head’s thugs.

 

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.