Please. Won't Somebody Tell Me; Sonnet For A Sounding Brass And Tinkling Cymbal

Please, won't somebody tell me why a strutting clown---

who brought such chaos to our Capitol town---

still aspires to high office with ambitions as low

as the pits of hell?  And not too long ago,

he sought to make all our people compliant and comformable

to his amorality (his soul is contemptible).

Imposer of falsehoods, and breaker of rules,

he is fit only to govern thugs and fools.

I pray God in Heaven to slap upon him a stern rebuke,snd

this poseur, this pirate, this purveyor of fake views,

this shouter of superlative love of himself.  I flatly refuse

to speak well of him (the sound of his name makes me want to puke).

And if (Dear God forbid) our people and homeland swerve

into that monster's cluthes---well, we will get what we deserve.

 

Starward

 

 

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Surely, this must be about one of horror fiction's worst denizens.  A man this amoral, hateful, and outrageously manipulative (with a bad haircut at that) cannot possibly be unfictional,although certainly disfunctional in the extreme.  Yet, he seems so similar to a failed Slavic lawyer, a Bavarian housepainter, and an Italian newspaper editor.


Part of the title derives from 1 Corinthians 13:1.

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Delicious read, how the red

Delicious read, how the red emboldens me. Hate hath so many different degrees, primarily I mean in correlation to the various principles transmitted via networks of social contagion in order to drive the nightmares of one another's pridefully perceived cultural swerves, yet prevalant and parellel in this all-redy-hell you see. Hypocrisy might be the term best fit for you yourself to grasp and humble by when all our monuments (once-upon-a-time) finally crumble.


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Thank you.  I continue to

Thank you.  I continue to regret my own worst hypocrisy, which was to relinquish the opportunity to love and be loved in early 1978.  That relinquishment was accomplisbed by the insidious words of people very much like the (fictional) character I have attempted to portray in this poem.


Starward