One Political Poem That Was Birthed From Fact Before Dying Belly Up Like a Turtle in the Sun

You're voting for him.

Even though he makes comments about women and their looks

and insults them if they don't meet his definition of beauty.

You're voting for him.

He mocks the disability

of a journalist 

who won the New York Times

a Pulitzer Prize.

But you're gonna punch his ticket.

He jokes about the Purple Heart,

and defines his own war heroes,

even though he's never served.

But his name is still on the ballot.

He tells African Americans

that they've never had it worse

(ignoring Jim Crow and slavery).

And tells Mexicans 

and Muslims 

that they are unwanted. 

That they are terrorists

and criminals.

But you're gonna give him your vote.

He has no plans.

But he wants to wall off the free world.

And he has no policies,

except for climbing into Putin's back pocket.

But you're going to have him represent us in front 

of the UN and NATO.

His catchphrase is "You're fired."

So you're going to hand him nuclear weapons

and access to the Pentagon.

He's bankrupt.

And the only things he's managed to run

were marriages 

and businesses

and poor lives

into the ground 

for his own gain.

He's lived spoiled

and oblivious

for 70 years.

And got his start from daddy's

gift of millions.

But you're going to give him the keys

to the mint 

while you struggle to make rent

and keep your kids fed.

He is a fascist. 

He's what Woody Guthrie sang against

and the artist has painted

and written against

in order to--peacefully--

scream in the face of the public 

in an attempt to wake them up.

Let. Reason. In. 

Turn off Fox news.

Read the news reports from other countries.

Think critically.

Ask questions. 

Demand evidence.

There is a reason

why scientists,

teachers,

philanthropists,

and activists

do not embrace him.

There is a reason

why people who keep us moving forward

do not side with him.

Do not help him hold us back.

Do not let him win.

He is our tangerine Hitler.
Our orange Stalin.
He is a failure in wolf's clothing
and red power tie.

He is the GOP's
Frankenstein's monster.

And we are about
to be
the windmill.