“What The Donald Wants” or The Dark Side of Mr. T

I was working on a poem about someone who definitely triggers a variety of my hot buttons.  Putting on the final touches, when…the light-bulb didn’t just go on – it exploded.  I saw the obvious:  there was a more worthy target; a larger than life figure inviting to be the object of my skewed and skewering attention.  And that I could pair my words and wit with a classic Broadway show tune, only added to my delight.  The Donald, this one’s for you!

P.S.  A reader has already requested a poem about Hillary C.  I'm an equal opportunity lampooner!

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"What The Donald Wants" or The Dark Side of Mr. T

[Loosely sung to the tune of "Whatever Lola Wants," from the Broadway production, Damn Yankees]

Whatever Donald wants

The Donald gets

Whatever Donald rants

There are no regrets.

[Repeat each stanza; first rendition sultry, second version playfully aggressive]

Oh Mr. T

Object of idolatry

Despite the hirsute buffoonery

For The Donald T

Has a down to earth strategy…

Rub-their-face-in-dirt oratory.

Whatever T demands

He will always get

You're putty in his hands

Do you "kool-ade" and abet?

Oh Media-ocracy

You so frighten me

Buying all this lunacy

Oh Media-ocrity

Is ratings slavery

Worth such "psycho-phant-asy"? **

** sycophant:  "a person who praises powerful people in order to get their approval" and/or bask in reflected (or ratings) glory as well as their real or imagined sphere of influence; Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)

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For DTs, day is night, black is white

With their "Great Again" vision

Of course, always, might makes right…

Even if hallucination?  Even if hallucination!

Oh Humpty Trumpty

So plain to see

How off "The Wall" can we all be?

Oh Trumpty Dumpty

For cooking up mass insanity

What's the nouveau-Jonestown recipe?

Atop Babel of Tower

Ball Bluster of the Net

Will unchecked EGO power

Perhaps save us yet?

Oh Mr. T

Our Zeus-like authority

Hurling tweets with impunity

Oh Donald T

Brilliant mind with no boundary

(Unless you're from Mexico City)

Oh Trumpty Dumpty

Please answer me:

Has shell game surreality -

i.e., Reality TV Presidency -

Made a mockery of democracy?
Or is it when your demagoguery
Apes Neo-McCarthy ideology?
(To the sentient-ape family
My sincerest apology!)

Oh Darth Vanity

Death Star "Grandiosity"

If you should implode, hypothetically

With galactic interdependency

Can we survive bail out, black-hole bankruptcy?

Another Atlantic City success story?

(Not to mention Trump University)...

My Lord, I ask with all humility:

Perchance, may we finally FIRE thee?

©  Mark Gorkin   2016

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