The fever that burns through
the old white men
in a show of republican theater
cloaks them in sweaty lies
fabricated from a mad parrot’s preachings
under DC’s furtive grind
as it chews up the impoverished
and spews the bony pits
to the tune Yankee Doodle Dandy.
copyright © 2021 Kenneth P. Gurney
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