the brown bag prophet
sat comfortably
underneath
an autumn colored
maple tree
reading
a summary
about
the attempted
january insurrection
when he giggled
i asked
what’s so funny
about
such criminal behavior
smiling
and
shrugging his shoulders
he said
who would have
ever
thought
that the story
of
the emperor’s new clothes
would become
an allegory
for a nation’s
political history
though
they
walk the halls
of
congress
as
representatives
of
the people
we typically
find them
enaging
agreeing
or
offering to engage
in
dubious
conduct
and
behavior
in
return
for
a fee
if they walked
the streets
they’d be
called
something else
deserted chambers the walls destroyed from within believe in nothing for traitors are everywhere they’ll say some comforting words while stealing your life’s freedom
with the same sincerity as oscar brown’s signifyin’ monkey republicans said we should move on in the spirit of national unity as well as kiss and make up forgetting the insurrection and those national terrorists who were emboldened to storm the castle of democracy by the white house wizard dolos and his political apprentices who together created a copy lady liberty but one could say they ran out of clay well votes really but that’s not the point for now all should be forgotten and no doubt their next proposal will be we should drink the kool-aid
like whores posing with nighttime pay-by-the-hour customers the insurrectionists paused their coup d’état to stop and take selfies in the capital rotunda like al-qaeda terrorists posing with the decapitated heads of nude children unfurling their venomous flags of ignorance and hate as their toxic breaths attempted to poison the air of democracy while their demigod leader hid safely away from the battle and as always took no responsibility for the actions he had guided