[Newspoetry] A Connecticut Yankee in Pseudo Cowboy Boots

[DL Emerick]

W's bio is complete -- fiction:
Full of southern reconstruction,
Revisionism at its very worst,
Inventing the man, historically,
Precisely as he wants to be seen,
because he believes that it sells,
in the Madison Avenue sense of "sell".

If it had fit the image of the product,
He would have been portrayed at KKK rallies,
Who -- curiously -- are in a revival
Under this forceful magnetic presidency
That draws out the worst in all of us
And lets the iron dust swirl about us,
And clinging as if to cartoon Pig Pen,
Polluting our lungs and our hearts,
In second-hand hatred's poisonous fumes.

His politics are easily denoted:
Fear, hatred, distrust, and violence --
It is all so Satanic, if you believe in God,
Especially in some terminal Apocalypse.
Oh, his followers believe in that, too,
But their interpretive guide is off,
For they see only the surface of dark waters
And do not ask what hand stirs them.

And, his bold catch phrase, "Bring it on"
Warns us all of reckless abandon in the man,
The truly constant character of his personality,
Whether he is mindlessly at Yale, in uniform,
In Texas or in business or in a White House --
He runs his life as a prodigal son of Texas.

His followers forget how Satan sows division,
By exploiting dark emotional waters in them,
Calling them to put down others, in despite,
Rather than helping in their own ways of life --
his "philosophy" is anything but that of Jesus --
it is most akin to the figure of Muhammad,
as projected by like-ill-minded Eastern folks,
who stamp out modernity and moderation, as well --
for the pattern of Evil is structurally present,
equivalent in Bin-Laden-ists and George W Bush.

Even in the depths of the days of Nixon,
In some of the saddest days of our history,
Nothing brought more detestation to me,
More revulsion of my stomach and my spirit,
Which are alike unable to accept Bushism --
And its corporate ways of unaccountability.

If history teaches lessons, by induction:
The cult of CEOs is evil, because amoral,
No business leader is morally fit to be president,
Presumptively, of either corporation or America,
If you can still tell the two apart, after Bush.

Indeed, a presumption of innocence is violated
When we think to apply it to business leaders,
As if they were common and ordinary persons,
innocent at heart, not inclined to do evil --
but does anyone get to be president of anything
unless he has a great deal of evil in his heart,
of what he would be willing to do to "win"?

America does not despise the CULT OF POWER,
Not anymore, not in the least little-bit --
Everywhere, we all look for the STRONG_MAN,
The IRON_MAN, not the one in the iron mask --
Our American Revolution declared: no KINGS,
Because we the People do not need CEOs;
Our Constitution declared, quite firmly,
The President shall faithfully execute the laws,
Not make them, as and when he wishes,
In the divine right of the Presidency,
That Cheney champions as the Unitary Presidency:
His Presidency is an office of Absolute Leader.

It is this evil faith in STRONG_MEN_OF_IRON
That STALIN practiced, that SADDAM adored,
That peacock Bush resented in peacock SADDAM,
Because BUSH wanted to be STALIN's truest son,
Knowing that he lacked the marvels of speech,
The tongue that hypnotizes like a snake,
The golden tongue of that demon HITLER.

Oh, this is not even newspoetry,
as if I now needed to say that,
having been enervated long ago,
losing whatever voice muses of art gave me
that let me try to ridicule or to inspire,
which are almost the same thing --
to put down Bush, to call people back from doom.