POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE! Submit up to 3 poems about today's world in flux totaling no more than 150 lines each by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, May 30th. Culmination reading will be held on Saturday, May 31st, 3 to 5 pm ON ZOOM ONLY (link to reading will be provided to every published poet).

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Dean Okamura

 


Big Beautiful TACO 
(Trump Always Chickens Out)

 

        at a recent press conference … 


"They'll say,       oh, he was chicken. He was chicken." 


     "I say, it's called negotiation." 

     They asked me a "nasty question". 


"They'll say,       oh, he was chicken. He was chicken." 


     "They wouldn't be here without 

     my big beautiful tariff." 


"They'll say,       oh, he was chicken. He was chicken." 


      "That's unbelievable." 


The wild world calls 

serene, rising above the noise 

of men who crow and mock 

in echo chambers built to fail. 


     Trumpy Dumpty sat on his wall, 

     Crowed and chickened out before his fall, 

     All his spin doctors and all his men 

     Couldn't make TACO shell whole again.



* TACO: Coined by Financial Times journalist Robert Armstrong in a May 2 column 





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