Looking for a Christmas present for my son.
He wants to be a politician.
Not the merriest of Christmases
nor the happiest of New Years
for politics in America.
Abraham Lincoln is neatly
standing next to Teddy Roosevelt
at our local bookstore
With best-selling volumes
of FDR and Washington
stacked comfortably nearby.
With another somewhat dusty
book sitting far to the right
On another shelf in the non-fiction
biography section titled
“Donald Trump: America’s
Failing President.”
Sitting next to a few dull
panned volumes excoriating
Richard Nixon.
My son is a passionate
progressive Democrat.
He is wondering how a racist
With his money God, occupies
the White House in America
with Christmas coming?
As billionaires get tax cuts,
beggared sick lay dying
in their beds
Anti-Muslim venom spews,
gay pride flags are burning,
the NRA controls Congress.
Did our President really just
tweet that a New York
US Senator is a whore?
Did our commander in chief really say
that Rocket Man will be met with fire
and fury like the world has
never seen before?
Looking for a Christmas present for my son.
Not an easy choice to make. Perhaps FDR,
but he seems so far away.
My son wants to be a politician.
He’s a sophomore in high school
and wants to save America.
He’s always been such a good boy.