{"id":5090,"date":"2024-01-10T07:12:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T12:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2024-01-10T07:12:32","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T12:12:32","slug":"poem-trump-blows-into-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/10\/poem-trump-blows-into-town\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Trump Blows (into town)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m posting this poem in honor of the upcoming Republican primaries. I actually wrote this poem years ago when Trump came to Toledo for a campaign stop. My experience there adds a layer to this poem. The attendees of the rally were overwhelmingly white. In fact, excluding some of the protesters, there were more blacks as vendors selling Trump paraphernalia than black rally attendees. I found this an odd and somewhat disturbing juxtapositioning. I spoke with several of the black vendors and they said that they didn’t care for Trump but it was a chance to make some bucks. Perhaps fleecing Trump supporters by selling them overpriced campaign paraphernalia was as poetic justice as could be mustered that day, in some eerily American way.<\/p>\n

Trump Blows (into town)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The end of the line
\nIs just
\nA block ahead
\nBeyond the pale
\nMaking a hockey game
\nLook
\nLike an NAACP convention
\nYet darker
\nFolks selling crap
\nThey don\u2019t believe in
\nThe mob buys it
\nMoney saved
\nFrom there hallowed ticket
\nThe price of free
\nDumb
\nAllegedly worth twice that
\nAnd all the wile
\nThe prize of admission
\nWe the people
\nCan\u2019t afford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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