a burgeoning drip of authoritarianism rages

while a false tutelage charms the horde

hide-bound, they seek what’s been sold

the angry, the put-upon, the disenfranchised

(or so they’ve been preached to, again & again)

they proclaim, they defend, they implore

they beseech their new godhead, the one—

the anointed, the sign tells us, letters spray-painted

in glittering gold, come to save us all

to heal what ails us, the evil that lurks

in the liberal hearts of castigators & nonbelievers,

courageous, unfettered minds cognizant

of the danger, those who dare rail

against the utter stupidity of this despicable man