All Hail The Thief

People who admire spectacle have been quoted
as saying that 'organised sport is a good thing',
and more - that 'sport is war by other means',
where wars could be pursued by many means
other than direct military conflict. All of them
less acceptable to large television audiences
who watch team sports broadcast on large screens,
funded by advertising, as if sport on TV
with adverts between content paying for it
is good because they don't kill each other.

As if televised sport is the most peaceful time,
the safest opiate for the maximum audience,
that a wealthy consumerist society can give itself.  

Trump, physically unfit and mean of spirit as he is,
has made his sport rhetoric of poisonous sort,
which he shares in half filled stadia he will not pay for
as if the wealth he shows off with,
live on television, gave him his right to be there.

Wars will continue with President Trump
who will fight them with tariffs, rather than arms.
He will proclaim peace through bluster from stadia
at a distance from his fans, through television screens,
where he doubles the distance he keeps from his followers. 

As jaw jaw jaw morphs into war war war
so the world will be confused as to how to respond.