THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, a poem

          Our democracy

          is a magnificent

          iceberg

          never before tested

          by a chieftain

          with polluted values

         

          Will Donald Trump

          prove to be

          a negligible ice pick

          a scarring steam shovel

          or a scorching force

          of nature

         

          Perhaps our form

          of government

          will blunt him

          frustrate him

          enrage him

          burn him out

          (Dec. 31, 2016)

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