Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Lockdown Pennsylvania Avenue

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR:  GEORGE FLOYD SERIES



Lockdown Pennsylvania Avenue

With the impeachment trial
An enemies list
Disdain for lawful protest
Rejection of civil rights
And disregard for civil liberties
The horrors of the day
Recall the reign of Tricky Dick
Who resigned in disgrace

But it was LBJ who hunkered down
In the Oval Office
Locked down in the White House
While an army of vocal protesters
Camped out beyond the fence
And refused to leave
LBJ ended his reign under siege

In an act of common decency
To spare the nation further pain
He refused to seek a second term
Acknowledged nothing more to gain

If only this president
Had the decency of LBJ
He would step down and fade away

But he is neither Nixon nor LBJ
He’s under lockdown behind razor wire
In the fortress on Pennsylvania Avenue
Alone and despondent
He knows now he couldn’t make the grade
He curses ghosts in the darkness
Lashes out at those he sees
Devolves into madness
Issuing his decrees

Johnson escalated Vietnam
Nixon doubled down
But neither put our troops
On American ground

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