Dear Ms, Publisher,
The day of reckoning draws near
In the balance hope and fear
On the one side reasoned talk
And then, the raging Jaberwock
Desperate as a cornered beast lashing out,
contempt unleashed
Contempt for science, for the truth
for democracy itself, forsooth.
Rallying his dwindling crowd.
With armegeddon dire and loud
but America has had her fill
Of prevarication, covid chills
what’s needed is a steady hand
Compassion’s eye cast on the land
Competence and expertise
brought to bear among the least.
Among us all Jesu abides.
Raise up all boats, a rising tide!
But first the Beast put of the station
Slouching towards investigation.
The White House newly disinfected
The pestilence now unelected,
A new broom sweeps, good will restored
Across the aisle, across the board.
Tom Hess