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Whoppers Of Boss Tweet: Our Poet Answers Trump's 2018 State of the Union
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
01 Feb 2018
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A thief
a thug

Clown in a rug
A tweet
deceit
A lie
a cheat—
Embellish, embroider:
a lying disorder…

A myth
a fable
a bit unstable"
Flimflam, claptrap
bunkum—bull crap!
An empty wagon
a puffed up dragon…

A whopper
a fib 
You peeped 
from your crib!
A sham
a fake
a major ‘mistake—’

Pathological lying
false-flag flying…

A grope 
a trope
Bad jokes
breaststrokes
A grope of the crotch—
another ‘man notch’
where they debauch
over water and scotch… 

A trumped up story—
cock-and-bull glory
A foot in the mouth
for strategy south

Pie in the sky—
a barefaced lie
A pig in disguise
fooling some eyes…
Playing fast and loose
with Jim Jones Juice
A masquerade—
a Nazi parade
A fake ‘great nation’
same plantation

A bug in the hall
a fly on the wall
A great big whale
an ongoing tale
A parade in July
another big lie
A wink of an eye—
enough outcry?

A thief
a thug
Man in a rug
A tweet
deceit
A lie
a cheat—
Time for feet 
in the street
Sustaining… 
…street heat!!

Poets’ note: Inspired by the great Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Waters of March”

Raymond Nat Turner © 2017 All Rights Reserved

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