Stirring the pot (poem below)

You will find 184 of my poems HERE. fno.org/poetry/index.html

 

The Trump Supreme Court in the USA suddenly cast off any pretense of being judicial by overturning Roe vs. Wade and a New York gun control law. We are seeing partisan, Republican policies advanced under the guise of fatuous legalisms.

 

We suddenly have protection for the unborn while school children are murdered by assault weapons that are wrongly permitted. The USA has taken a horrible turn to the right thanks to Trump loading the court with ideologues.

 

Stirring the pot

 

 

I have been known

Now and then

To stir a pot

Or two

Or three

To ask embarrassing questions

And aim poems at injustice

Avarice

And greed

 

I have

Now and then

Lobbed irony at hypocrisy

And fact-checked imposters

Clowns

And demagogues

 

I have stirred the pot

Added pepper flakes

And cooked up a hot sauce

Or two

Or three

From time to time

Laughing at the Emperor’s new clothes

Mocking the Pretender’s throng

And singing that old song

We shall overcome!

 

© Jamie McKenzie, all rights reserved

You will find more of my poems and songs here

and in The Storm in Its Passing and Flights of Fancy.

 

My songs are at

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