The Empire Of Plastic

Never in the history of the American presidency
has so much media been so wilfully misused
to promote so many policies that have razed
to nothing the limited good will between the nations,
and further lay waste to a domestic admistration
in terms that confound all belief in civilisation.

Historian Suetonius credited Emerperor Augustus
with the phrase 'I saw it brick and left it marble'
to describe how he had changed the centre of the world,
I wonder what materials America will be described
in terms of after Trump's America expires.....  ...plastic?   

Welcome To Your Polonium President

Everyone in the world knows
the story of King Midas, the king
who rated gold that highly that the gods
cursed him so that everything outside himself
that he touched, including his family, turned to gold,
thus devaluing utterly what once pleased his eye so.

President Trump brags how his touch turns money
into more money, including increased debt
when he is careless - which he is often.
Until he was impelled to embrace being known
as the wealthiest serial bankrupt in the world.
But hey! Money is only money; it is not life.

Now with Trump being in Putin's favourite pocket fascist,
who Putin needs for him to stay in power, and keep at a distance,
so that Putin can organise his country's media hall of mirrors,
in the assuredness of mutual loathing. So welcome Trump
the Polonium President who in choosing his cabinet will poison
and wither every branch of government he is allowed near,
without him being blamed for his choice of 'Yes' men and women
all of whom will be elected to be the biggest 'No' to usefulness
and competence in government in the history of The Republic.

When it arrives, how many hundred million Americans,
along with the migrants, will say 'We didn't see this coming'?