Chad Parenteau
#ReleaseTheTrumpCut
Heed our hashtag warriors
brandishing their armchairs.
Restore the Trump Universe.
Recover the one true continuity.
Start with the missing footage
of everyone at inauguration.
Cut the whole Russia thing. Went
nowhere, got in narrative’s way.
Use CGI, right side up Bible,
lip-synch intended victory speech.
Ashli Babbitt is a misused character.
Give her a hero moment pre-death.
Shoot new scenes of Hillary in court,
her shaved-head deposition on Obama.
Insert QAnon Shaman as judge
presiding over every trial and
execution of Pedocrats, who are
replaced with reptilian replicas.
Create a new insurrection to battle,
a deeper state summer blockbuster.
Chad Parenteau‘s most recent poetry collections are All’s Well Isn’t You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts. His poems have appeared in Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, and other journals, as well as in anthologies including French Connections, Sounds of Wind, Reimagine America, and The Vagabond Lunar Collection. He serves as associate editor of the journal Oddball Magazine; is co-organizer of the annual Boston Poetry Marathon; and hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series.
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