Two Trumps

A buffalo

In Bangladesh

Was set to go

The way of flesh

Until his clumps

Of blondish hair

Like Donald Trump’s

Contrived to spare

Him. Now he’s in

A Dhaka zoo.

Hair saved the skin

Of Donald Two.

The undeceased

Is not a vain

And angry beast—

Unlike the pain

His name is shared

With. That’s the price

Of being spared

From sacrifice …

Two Trumps: Conceit

Consumes one whole.

And one’s a sweet

And gentle soul!

 

Mike Mesterton-Gibbons is a Professor Emeritus at Florida State University who has returned to live in his native England. His poems have appeared in Current Conservation, the Ekphrastic Review, Light, Lighten Up Online, the New Verse News, Oddball Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, WestWard Quarterly and other journals. In 2025 he won the Children’s Unpublished category of the Eyelands Book Awards with Flora’s Flock and Other Stories to Read Aloud. The poem was prompted by the Guardian story “Blond Bangladeshi buffalo nicknamed ‘Donald Trump’ saved from Eid sacrifice.”