If the Poet Laureate of the United States Ran the Country
PLOTUS for POTUS
For the price
of an L
we get better rallies
(readings really)
where words withstand
gunshots and mugshots
PLOTUS hasn’t fallen
when woke words walk
the country
wide awake
with pride
candidates on the stump
PLOTUS knocking on doors
his stanzas of hope
like psalms
left in mailboxes
by literary missionaries
PLOTUS for POTUS
Find him incognito
selling fruit at roadside stands
We The People stop
by to buy
biting the cold skins
of national conscience
justice dribbling down our chins
America is a big red apple
a curvaceous pear
black and white grapes
bunched together
exotic fruit ripening
at our border
PLOTUS for POTUS
and revolution ripens
in coffee houses
where PLOTUS reads
for free
PLOTUS in high heels
PLOTUS of dark skin
PLOTUS’ all-seeing
almond eyes
PLOTUS loving
their own sex
reading for free
(free verse of course)
PLOTUS sets our course at last
America remembers
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Yes! :
“PLOTUS for POTUS”
“Woke words walk
the country
wide awake
with pride”
Love: “We The People stop” (and using bold font)
And yes! to that last glorious stanza!
Lee, this is excellent. Your poem takes us to a place that we can actually imagine being– yes!
“We The People stop
by to buy
biting the cold skins
of national conscience
justice dribbling down our chins”
Stunning write.
I love the last stanza. It’s the part of the song where the singer belts it out loud! Mic drop.
Yes!
“revolution ripens in coffee houses” speaks to my soul! Very nicely done, the whole thing.
Yes! I’d vote for him or her.
<3
Love love this plus:
"bunched together
exotic fruit ripening
at our border"