What Rough Beast | Poem for February 12, 2018

Dave Conlin Read
The Outer Borough Colonel, Old Bone Spur

Having ordered a parade of his own,
Trump is transformed
from Putin’s Puppet,
to Kim’s Clone.

Now, we wonder…

Will he ask bids
for a new pyramid,
or coldly evict, then
re-brand Grant’s Tomb?

 

Dave Conlin Read publishes BerkshireLinks.com, and reviews concerts at Tanglewood. He lives in Lenox, MA.

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