Pardon Moi
by Gil Hoy / February 9th, 2025
Smeared shit
On marble steps
Has apparently reached
A new level of elegance
And acceptance.
I wonder what would happen
if we followed suit.
Perhaps they’ll attack
Another man in blue
Today
With a tomahawk ax, a hatchet
Or a pitchfork.
“I just got the news from my lawyer…
Thank you President Trump!!!
Now I am going to buy
Some motha Fu*kin guns!!!”
Really….
Would you do it again?
Would you—–
if he told you to?
Please don’t tell the children
About it!
Don’t tell the children!
For who knows
what would become
of them.
He’s back!
I think I’ll just go out back
And throw up.
Gil Hoy is a Best of the Net nominated Tucson, Arizona poet and writer who studied fiction and poetry at The Writers Studio in Tucson, Arizona and at Boston University. Hoy previously received a B.A. in Philosophy from Boston University, an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Hoy is a semi-retired trial lawyer and a former four-term elected Brookline, MA Selectman. His poetry and fiction have previously appeared in
Third Wednesday, Flash Fiction Journal, Tipton Poetry Journal, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Chiron Review, The Galway Review, Right Hand Pointing, Rusty Truck, Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, The Penmen Review, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Bewildering Stories, Literally Stories, The New Verse News and elsewhere.
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This article was posted on Sunday, February 9th, 2025 at 8:00am and is filed under Poetry.
