Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Socialist Sonnet No. 190

Spectacle

 

Fascist is a lazy pejorative.

Too often a head of state struts and preens,

Engineering unedifying scenes;

His rhetoric and bluster combative.

The president becomes the spectacle

Personified, appears more an unsurer

Il Duce, than some latter day Fuehrer,

In his pomposity. The debacle

Unfolding of governance by whim,

And ideology of “what I say

Is forever true”, at least for today:

All resolution dissolves in him.

Endorsed by a cabal of the willing,

Willing themselves a financial killing.

 

D. A.

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