A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House
Dale Going
Got No Cognitive
I’ve got no cognitive problem I have no cognitive there’s no cognitive problem got no cognitive what about the goose the geese what about the geese they were all missing I don’t know Howie Howie Howie I have no idea I think it’s accurate I mean I think it’s accurate why don’t you go after the newspaper that wrote it don’t blame me never touches the human hand nice and full never touched a human hand nice and clean Jill get your fat husband off the couch get that fat pig off the couch tell him to go and vote for Trump he’s going to save our country get that guy the hell off our get him up Jill slap him around get him up get him up Jill we want him off the couch to get out and vote
Dale Going is the author of The Beautiful Language of Our Disaster (Codhill Press, 2025) and the chapbook For the Anniversaries of All Loving Kinds of Meetings (Albion Books, 2025). Her previous collections are The View They Arrange (Kelsey St. Press, 1994) and As/of the Whole (San Francisco State University, 1990). She has received grants from Fund for Poetry and California Arts Council, and residencies at Yaddo, Watermill Center, Wedding Cake House and Djerassi. Recent poems appear in Annulet, Interim, digital vestiges, New American Writing, VOLT, Wild Roof Journal, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.
Indolent Books and editor Michael Broder are back with another poem-a-day series as a creative response to the threat posed to our democracy by the current occupant of the White House. The plan is to continue for all 1460 days of the 47th American presidency.
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