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‘Reality Show’ Democracy

Blustering bully clown
the unhinged ‘junker’
Trump just won’t hunker down
in White House bunker

but carries on conceited
in full blown narcissism
indulges in untreated
racism, neo-fascism

His volcanic vanity
pounds in profanity
Incessant inanity
sprains human sanity

‘Reality Show’ Democracy
bestowed on us: Kakistocracy!

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-junkers = the landed ‘nobility’ in Prussia. their great estates (in Trump’s case: golf resorts, hotels & casinos) are worked by those with few rights
-kakistocracy = government by the vile & worst, least qualified or most unscrupulous citizens (from Greek kakistos: worst)

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Us humans best at our worst

In all around us collapse
humans best at our worst
In reoccurring relapse
a Species sadly cursed

Our worst foot forward
acting when not knowing
Drifting back shoreward
‘progress’ never slowing

Watch our denial glisten
as we refuse to listen!

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Unease gnaws on our pith

Efforts effete about the climate
and growing inequality
while for a neo-Nazi Heimat
abounds power and polity

about endless warfare
ever pushing containment
From our comfy armchairs
such splendid entertainment

Empire’s proud minions cruel
hardened hearts steeped in myth
splash in consumer cesspool
Unease gnaws on our pith …

… when reduced to watch the next wildfire
and the nuclear race on high wire

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Aren’t most of idiots truly in these times most unruly?

‘Idiots’ are we not truly
in Athenian word sense
if in these times most unruly
we’re just sitting on the fence?

With economy now in free fall
while society collapses
time to mitigate (though can’t forestall)
before short time left elapses!

Why don’t we try our utmost
as Earth does turn burning toast?

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idiot = from ‘idios’ (private, one’s own); an ‘idiot’ in Athenian democracy (500 B.C.) was someone who was concerned almost exclusively with private, as opposed to public, affairs – not seeming to grasp how they are intertwined! Declining to take part in public life was largely frowned upon – considered dishonorable even. ‘idiots’ were thus seen as having poor judgment in societal matters (now, really!)

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Of obligations self-absolved

Humans selfishly devolved
into self-absorbed, complacent
Of obligations absolved
only sparingly complaisant

Turned inconsiderate, smug
Unless there’s something gained
barely a glance or a shrug
towards others deigned

Cluelessly protesting: “We’re blameless!”
Conniving, scheming, seeming shameless

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Senators spray sick graffiti

Senatorial behavior during the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination hearing inspired this verse.

Such puffed up buffoons!
Poltroons in a war dance!
Aspired, failed tycoons?
Leaves us looking askance

Hearings in judicial committee
lair of panicked male chauvinism
where senators spray sick graffiti
ominous of neo-fascism

Misogyny in harsh light
shining unsparingly bright