RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Impunity
“Nothing’s more dangerous than
power with impunity.”
Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia
Nothing speaks of insanity
Nothing could be more extreme
Than a president with impunity
Decreed by the Court Supreme
One wonders what they were thinking
On that misbegotten day
When the ship of state was sinking
And they helped it on its way
They gifted him immunity
The people did not have a say
They assured enduring disunity
For as long as he would stay
So now he’ll stay forever
He will never leave the house
He’s pulling each and every lever
To get his forces armed and roused
ICE is his gestapo
Brown Shirts and the Guard
We don’t know where it goes
But we’re sure it goes down hard
Our democracy is at stake
She is trembling with desperate fear
Her defenders better stay awake
Or the end times will be here
