Crippled, But Growing Good
I was reading Trump's Crippled America the other day...
I'm sorry to interrupt, but why?
Isn't his Unreality Show more than taxing enough already?
Well, more than sufficient, actually,
but I was trying to figure out
what he believes a non-gimpy America
would look like.
Fascist scary, am I right?
Like a pilot
for yet another dystopian vampire series.
Anyway,
he keeps describing himself
as not only a rich man
but a nice man.
But not a crippled good man.
Right.
I've heard him declare some of his relatives are good.
And then there were the Nazis in Virginia,
also some good people there.
Just having a bad day
at the same time
in the same unfortunate little place
by coincidence,
but good people,
with democratically healthy intentions.
Probably reminds him of his Republican Party.
He says he is rich and nice;
but does not say he is good
or could become better,
or in any way ego crippled,
fractured by love
for innocence of intimate life
as gift.
I don't suppose he's just being coy.
I see Trump as coy
even less than Trump as nice.
He all but uses the word "bully"
describing how he ended up in military school,
where he also had unspecified issues.
Didn't we call those reform schools
back in the day
of childhood self-righteousness?
No, dear,
reform schools were supposed to be about education
to restore sanity.
Military school is about going the other insane direction,
polyunsaturated war-mongering and ballistic bully threats
against foreign property,
which, unfortunately, includes people
and their pets.
And livestock,
gardens and farms,
food and fiber
and spiritual philosophy.
Unworthy causes for erections
and elections
for some not so nice people.
Like un-reformed bullies?
Like over-fertilized monoculturing bullies
writing contracts out against Crippled America.
That doesn't sound good.
Or nice.
Or even particularly rich
for that matter.
I wonder if too much money,
in an aggressively colonizing
capital-infested culture
leads to too much power
to do even more aggressive violence
against natural-spiritual riches
of Earth
and Her Heavenly ways and means,
cooperative design
and intelligent equi-lateral nutritional planning.
I wonder if rich WesternWhite men
who hope they are becoming more refined,
nicer bullies,
but won't even pretend to be good,
are any more likely to become good healthy humans
than to pass through the crippled eye
of a discerning wu-wei needle.
Crippled eyes
to stand in solidarity
with the rest of us sinners
doing our best
to learn powers of love
over nice and rich bullying evil.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2017
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