Trump towers, Bush flowers

(It would not be the first time…)

Fearsome rabidity
fights suspect frigidity
in general genital
grace.
Once there was an actor,
once there was a spy,
duplicity incarnate
to mendacity wed.
Joined in pretense
electoral:
Real estate speculations,
fascist banking relations,
subordination
conventional,
aesthetics
expectoral,
senility bipartisan
verility displaced.

Fantasy cowboys
fresh sodomy from Yale
remakes in Death Valley,
not Contras in jail.
But even the somber
no longer remember
regurgitation rancid
all past Novembers.

Now a fantasy builder
white voters excites
worrying mainline partisans
with incorporate fright.

New York illuminates
phallic parasites
by night.
Florida fashions
dynastic vermin
delights.

Wondrous ways
for stupidity refined
Next November’s rapidity
with presidential vapidity
A Bush with a Trump
may well empire define.
Were there but a finish,
amidst final decline?

T.P. Wilkinson, Dr. rer. pol. writes, teaches History and English, directs theatre and coaches cricket between the cradles of Heine and Saramago. He is author of Unbecoming American: A War Memoir and also Church Clothes, Land, Mission and the End of Apartheid in South Africa. Read other articles by T.P..