President Me
Trump’s 240-foot golden triumphal arch would tower over the Lincoln Memorial.
When asked who it honors, he said, “Me.”
President Me trashes the White House landscape,
Spending millions of taxpayers' funds on vanity projects.
The Reflecting Pool, now turned algae green again
After being painted American flag blue.
The White House ballroom built with an underground
Doomsday bunker, Trump slapping his name
On buildings like the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, the East Wing Rose Garden
Paved over with concrete, demeaning examples of gaudiness
And tasteless kitsch, while many Americans cannot
Afford food, gasoline, electricity, rent, and housing,
The result of Trump’s war with Iran and his tariff wars
With global nations. How many of the 77 million
voters were conned and gaslit into voting for him
When he said he’d lower the price of eggs and
End the war in Ukraine on his first day in office?
Victor Henry's poetry and prose poems have appeared in small press magazines, anthologies, and e-zines, such as Slipstream; The Paterson Literary Review; Nobody Gets Off The Bus: The Viet Nam Generation Big Book; Vietnam War Poetry; The Homestead Review; Red River Review; The Monterey Poetry Review; The Porter Gulch Review; The Five-Two; Dead Snakes; I am not a Silent Poet; and Misfitmagazine, among others. His book of Vietnam poetry, What They Wanted, was published by Future Cycle Press.
Trump’s 240-foot golden triumphal arch would tower over the Lincoln Memorial.
When asked who it honors, he said, “Me.”
President Me trashes the White House landscape,
Spending millions of taxpayers' funds on vanity projects.
The Reflecting Pool, now turned algae green again
After being painted American flag blue.
The White House ballroom built with an underground
Doomsday bunker, Trump slapping his name
On buildings like the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts, the East Wing Rose Garden
Paved over with concrete, demeaning examples of gaudiness
And tasteless kitsch, while many Americans cannot
Afford food, gasoline, electricity, rent, and housing,
The result of Trump’s war with Iran and his tariff wars
With global nations. How many of the 77 million
voters were conned and gaslit into voting for him
When he said he’d lower the price of eggs and
End the war in Ukraine on his first day in office?
Victor Henry's poetry and prose poems have appeared in small press magazines, anthologies, and e-zines, such as Slipstream; The Paterson Literary Review; Nobody Gets Off The Bus: The Viet Nam Generation Big Book; Vietnam War Poetry; The Homestead Review; Red River Review; The Monterey Poetry Review; The Porter Gulch Review; The Five-Two; Dead Snakes; I am not a Silent Poet; and Misfitmagazine, among others. His book of Vietnam poetry, What They Wanted, was published by Future Cycle Press.
