Oh, Mr. President
Oh, Mr. President
your agenda has failed
Oh, Mr. President
the unfortunate wail
Oh, Mr. President
your tongue has been forked
Oh, Mr. President
your policies pork
Oh, Mr. President
your blinders fit tight
Oh, Mr. President
the days are now night
Oh, Mr. President
our veterans abandoned
Oh, Mr. President
your lies all ‘glad handed’
Oh, Mr. President
the babies in parts
Oh, Mr. President
your abortive retorts
Oh, Mr. President
our servicemen die
Oh, Mr. President
your defense ministers lie
Oh, Mr. President
the poor have sunk low
Oh, Mr. President
your smile still glows
Oh, Mr. President
our enemies stalk
Oh, Mr. President
they feast while you talk
Oh, Mr. President
Chicago now burns
Oh, Mr. President
your party to churn
Oh, Mr. President
your nose has grown long
Oh, Mr. President
the bees stinger gone
Oh, Mr. President
the bad checks that you write
Oh, Mr. President
our great-grandchildren’s plight
Oh, Mr. President
so slick and so cool
Oh, Mr. President
you treat us like fools
Oh, Mr. President
your ‘Emperors New Clothes’
Oh, Mr. President
your fantasy grows
Oh, Mr. President
to you black or white
Oh, Mr. President
our ‘melting pot’ fights
Oh, Mr. President
no skin in the game
Oh, Mr. President
the fleecing you gave
Oh, Mr. President
the economy sick
Oh, Mr. President
the Chinese hold our ‘chits’
Oh, Mr. President
your intent to deceive
Oh, Mr. President
we once did believe
Oh, Mr. President
all left and no right
Oh, Mr. President
damnation delights
Oh, Mr. President
the wall’s caving in
Oh, Mr. President
virtuosity sinned
Oh, Mr. President
the children now cry
Oh, Mr. President
their dreams have all died
Oh, Mr. President
a voice then so glib
Oh, Mr. President
the false life you have lived
Oh, Mr. President
your Cabinet rocked
Oh, Mr. President
all fair access locked
Oh, Mr. President
our health care in shambles
Oh, Mr. President
you banter and ramble
Oh, Mr. President
the Supreme Court in two
Oh, Mr. President
its cause—only you
Oh, Mr. President
old prophecy burns
Oh, Mr. President
new curses to learn
Oh, Mr. President
the knife twisting deep
Oh, Mr. President
the blade of a thief
Oh, Mr. President
the beggars last dime
Oh, Mr. President
wasted on crime
Oh, Mr. President
we were democrats once
Oh, Mr. President
both parties you’ve ‘chumped’
Oh, Mr. President
your minions behind
Oh, Mr. President
dropping like flies
Oh, Mr. President
the terrorists bold
Oh, Mr. President
your podium scolds
Oh, Mr. President
great promise now stilled
Oh, Mr. President
the aspirations you’ve killed
Oh, Mr. President
there’s fire at the gate
Oh, Mr. President
—your punishment waits
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2015)
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