#100Days100Poems Day 36 #TantrumTanka

For this return to #TantrumTanka, these found poems, with none to a little editing in some places, are compiled from direct quotes from Trumpet’s disastrous news conference from 16 February. The complete transcript of that clown show can be found here.

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“They will say ‘Donald
Trump rants & raves at the press.’
I’m not ranting &
raving. I’m just telling you.”
“I’m not ranting & raving.”

 

“You’re dishonest peo-
ple. But–but I’m not ranting
& raving. I love
this. I’m having a good time
doing it. I’m not… raving.”

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© David Siller – 2017

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#100Days100Poems Day 35 #TantrumTanka

For this return to #TantrumTanka, these found poems, with none to a little editing in some places, are compiled from direct quotes from Trumpet’s disastrous news conference from 16 February. The complete transcript of that clown show can be found here.

“It’s all fake news.” “The
nice thing is” “I see it” “It’s
out there for the world”
“and let me tell you, it
was given out like so much”

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“Well the leaks are real.
You’re the one that wrote about
them.” “I mean the leaks.”
“The leaks are absolutely
real.” “Much of the news is fake.”

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

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#100Days100Poems Day 34 The Return of #TrumptyDumpty

Today marks the return of our favorite nightmaresery rhyme character #TrumptyDumpty.

 

Trumpty Dumpty wanted to build a
           Y U G E wall.
Trumpty Dumpty wasn't successful
           at all.
No American, not one citizen,
Thought Trumpty Dumpty would make
           America Great Again.

 

© Anjanette Siller – 2017

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#100Days100Poems Day 33

For today, a political cartoon, appropriately sketched on the back of a receipt. We’re all already paying the price, it seems.

 

receipt-cartoon

 

 

© Hector Colón – 2017

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#100Days100Poems Day 32

Under the Trumpet regime the arts are already under attack. Rest assured the artists, and those who support them, will fight back. Never go in against a poet when poetry is on the line. (You think I could get Wallace Shawn to record that for me?)

Today’s piece is most assuredly a first draft, but here it is:

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The Petty Thief-in-Chief

 

And there, on a 6th Ave train headed uptown
stood nine sumptuous ladies
impeccable robes & inspired accoutrements
buzzing, their subway car
oblivious
the cutpurse did,
snipping handbag strings & messenger bag straps,
snatching from clutches & pinching from pouches:
and Urania’s compass comes up nipped
Melpomene’s & Thalia’s masks mooched into the mass in mass transit
Terpsichore’s pointe shoes pilfered
Polyhymnia’s veil vanished in a flash
score sheets & melodies swiped from Euterpa
tablets & notepads, pens & pencils nicked from Calliope, picked from Erato
and Clio’s news scrolls & history books seized and suppressed–


all for the greed of a few pennies.

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© David Siller– 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

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#100Days100Poems Day 31 #PhotoHaiku

Trumpet made headlines again for a rally that is, at best, really optimistic, but probably closer to delusional. Here’s another #PhotoHaiku

 

2020-bad-visionyo-mando-not-run

 

© David Siller – 2017

 

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#100Days100Poems Day 30

With each passing day we’re bombarded with exponentially increasing tidbits of nonsense from Washington. We run out of room and breath for the increasing requirements of outrage at every new scandal and tantrum and fourth reich callbacks. Read this one aloud, as quickly as possible, possibly more than once.

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Mounds of mountains mounted like fountains still amount to nothing. Tell you one thing.
The mother fucker wasn’t bluffing. Sniffing, spitting out snuff and coughing.
Snuffing. catching birds, rip em out for stuffing.
While hands are a cuffing I can handle with the coffee that I’m cupping.
For my mounds of miles amount to mountains of nothing.
Minor moments amassed, minutes minused away. Mashed to matters made of mercury.
Forged in furious fervors of forever, for the lunar glow of indigo was soon to fold to beautiful.
View too full.
Are you the fool?
A nail biter,
to the cuticle.
Miniscule minutes minus away as moments moving minorly to a bitter end.
The letter N, never bend, whereever the tether has tensioned in.
Settle in. The metal did.
Reveled in levels of medicine.
The better kid is the celibate.
The devils have mettled as ever been.
In matters of morsels, so delicate.
Latter of letters are hesitant.
Another friend.
A mother tends.
Cover for brother so militant.
Well isn’t it?
What is it then?
The merry-go, here we go.
See the trend.
The musical chairs then sit again.

The musical chairs then sit again.

The musical chairs then sit again.

My tissue tears(airs) to issue tears (ears)
By this you swear on which you hear.
Considering when it was written, a time of behave or leave.
The baddest of mad hatter chatter who you think made his tea?
For the mice still squeak of the cheddar.
To govern a V for Vendetta.
Weaving a huge ego so big I named it Hugo.
Day-Lewis said man’s flesh is of pork ossobuco.
My genetics work on a new code of high kinetics more than two fold.
If I could fit it in a Uhaul, I would pay only if you go.
To a Tank Girl, I’m a Boogo, hoppin like kangaroos, yo.
Through the roof, though with a Jet flow so retro,
The watts would spin Naomi backwards like “I moan!!”
I’m yelling “die clone” at my iPhone in a high tone that’ll zygote an eye chromosome.
Latinas are all like “My Corazon”.

 

© Chaney McInnis – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

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#100Days100Poems Day 29 #PhotoHaiku

Yesterday was a day of action, #ADayWithoutImmigrants. Today our #PhotoHaiku captures but one snapshot of the movement.

 

 

© Alyse Ramirez– 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

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#100Days100Poems Day 28 #PhotoHaiku

Despite the fact that at the very top everything we know is being shredded and rendered unrecognizable, we still keep trudging on. Proof that we will survive, perhaps a little worse for wear, and a little more motivated to seek our better angels.

 

 

 

© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

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#100Days100Poems Day 27 #PhotoHaiku

Today, another #PhotoHaiku, to be read as you see fit. In order to fight this good fight, we should all head to our arsenal: the library will have all the weapons we need for this struggle.

 

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© David Siller – 2017

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For the first 100 days of the Trumpet administration, this blog will feature a new poem of protest, by my own hand and by others. They will be polished gems, or rough cut drafts of rage, or in process pieces searching for peace. They may be haiku or tanka, limericks or lyrics, verses free or fettered. If you would like to submit to this endeavor, please send an email, with poem saved as a word document (.docx) to waxyandpoetic AT gmail DOT com. All rights remain with the author.

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