When in Rome
When the three men who would rule took the stage
all three: felon financier and freak
of fortune, a rich man poor of principals
in thrall to power, we saw being conjured
before our eyes by slyly woven tissues of brazen lies
a new kind of ism resisting definition.
Mass delusion manufactured by mercenaries
propelled through media by an immigrant
a man wanting to one day conquer Mars
standing next to a would-be Jupiter
an all-white triumvirate fostering fear
of immigrants even legal residents if black.
A new kind of ism, many shades of truth
peddled by a felon financier and freak
frightened of consequences when voters speak
Dick Russell © Richard M Russell
2024
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