Chad Parenteau
Fringe Fringes the Fringe
Million MAGA March, November 14, 2020
Twelve more years! Twelve more years!
Signs and chants compete for cameras.
Christ is King! Christ is King!
Pro-Trumper makes plea for unity
while signs and chants compete for cameras.
America first! America always!
Christ is King! Christ is King!
Proud Boys! Stand back! Stand by!
America first! America always!
Trump meets admirers via motorcade.
Proud Boys! Stand back! Stand by!
Hair peppered with new age, alleged wisdom.
Trump meets admirers via motorcade.
He tweets, “DC Police, get going,”
hair peppered with new age, alleged wisdom.
“Do your job and don’t hold back!”
He tweets, “DC Police, get going,”
while night colors dim to black and blue.
“Do your job and don’t hold back!”
Proud boys stand by memorial phallus
while night colors dim to black and blue.
“And even if Trump don’t win…”
(Proud boys stand by memorial phallus)
“…we will come back even stronger!”
“And even if Trump don’t win…”
Pro-Trumper makes plea for unity.
“…we will come back even stronger!”
Twelve more years! Twelve more years!
—Submitted on 11/23/2020
Chad Parenteau is the author of The Collapsed Bookshelf (Tell-Tale Chapbooks, 2020) and Patron Emeritus (FootHills Publishing, 2013). His poems have appeared in Résonancee, Queen Mob’s Tea-House, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, and other journals. Parenteau is a regular contributor to Headline Poetry & Press as well as associate editor of Oddball Magazine. Online at chadparenteaupoetforhire.com.
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