Bidin’ Time

A presiden-
tial portrait show
Of all the men
Except for Joe
Displays a White
House autopen
Where Biden might
Have been. It’s ven-
geance by the Don.
But come the day
When he has gone,
We may see pay-
Back—in a switch
Of Donald’s mug
For doodles which
Spell “Man-child thug!”

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, the Creativity Webzine, Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Grand Little Things, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. The poem was prompted by the Guardian story, “Trump hangs autopen photo instead of Biden portrait in new presidential gallery.”