Poem: Republicans Vote

 

Republicans Vote 2008 

 

the people had their swill

and now throng the troughs,

not to digest but to vomit forth

what they were told to know.

 

each face puzzles at the caricature

of the one in tandem

as they stand in a cordoned assembly line

of the anguished and the grotesque.

 

a man holds a noosed monkey.

three women wear the same t-shirt:

a baboonish candidate

who sucks a banana and gloats.

 

there is talk

of terrorist homosexuality,

of negro delinquency,

and a liberal anti-christ

urgent to outlaw prayer.

 

but mostly guns.

and Barack Hussein Obama.

 

big-bellied clichés

with beer-red neckmeat

bluster and swagger,

while dog-fierce kids 

fetch to return, return to fetch

the hate tossed when an adult sighs.

 

'unamerican liberal elites.'

'round them up.'  'brand them.'

'force them to leave.'

 

hours of this.

a vexed parade of the bitter.

it bristles as it circles,

 as if to constrict the schoolhouse,

raring to get inside.

 

 

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images based on news footage.

This poem is a way to get out my own hate and rage, focusing on racism.  The enemy is not people.   The enemy is racism and its effects.