Beyond simply to destroy daily
any of the previous day's remaining positive feelings
the world has for America
the Trump administration
has taken a circuitous route
to giving us poetry
specifically beatnik poetry
for example:
"When I said I would,
I actually meant wouldn't"
because "despite the constant negative press covfefe"
"what you're seeing
and what you're reading
is not what's happening"
because "truth isn't truth"
and you "can't guarantee anything"
but "Sean Spicer
gave alternative facts"
"there is blame
on both sides"
and "the laws are the laws."
Which is to say
"You cannot defeat an enemy
you do not admit exists"
because "they were the masterminds
behind the Bowling Green massacre."
This poem © 2018 Emily Cooper.
