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Momgonepostal

(2,872 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2017, 02:10 PM Jan 2017

How to write a poem about Donald Trump (Huff Post)

Moderators, please move if this is not appropriate for this forum.

The author is a local treasure and anti-Trump warrior, Sam Pierstorff. Enjoy:

You could begin with his hair, those gnarly blonde wisps balled together like grandmother’s yarn and sewn onto his scalp haphazardly the way a kindergartner might glue feathers onto his paper-plate-turkey during Thanksgiving.

But that would be too easy. You might suggest instead that blowing into his ear would emit the same hollow sound as one blowing into an empty jug of wine, which you have begun to drink a lot more of since Election Day...


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/587d01f8e4b077a19d180fdb?timestamp=1484588820206
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