The Report on the Deportation

You will see more of this graphic in the coming days.
Be on the lookout.

This post includes three poems. 
1. The Report of the Deported. 
2. The men behind the man.
3. Roadless








The Report on the Deported

Commission a report on the deportation.
Redact and sanitize the report.
Bury it alive under mounds of paperwork.

Dig up the report and shred every copy.
Be certain you leave no paper trail.
Deport the reporter.


The Men Behind the Man

Always remember, it’s not about a man.
It’s about the men behind the man,
and how they hold on to power.

They fund the disinformation and
misinformation. They fund the
business and professional association.

They fund the PACs and Super PACs,
as political hacks encourage the
grassroots movements called astroturf.

What will you do when they remove
the man that you have so eloquently
opposed with satire and grace.

The funders will decide when he
is no longer an asset and becomes
a liability.

               They will turn their backs 
as they maintain plausible deniability.
They will disdain the headlines.

They will throw him under the
train as the foundations and the
corporations laugh at the resistance.

His replacement will also be
a disposable razor. The men and
their policies will remain. 

​We need a plan to dislodge them. 

Roadless

The men squash toads as they build the roads.
They will use them for free to cut our trees.

Southern forests yield logs to machines with cogs,
but peletized trees can’t sway in the breeze.

I worried about the Amazon in the past, but we cut
our trees four times as fast. They surely won’t last.

​Our condition will be worse if they reverse
the roadless rule. Only a fool would not see the damage

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