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The Playboy of the Western World

 

In my rompers, in my bib,

Toys thrown well outside my pram:

That’s the cut of me, my jib;

That’s the way I am.

Feel my width and weigh my bulk –

Watch my elephantine sulk.

 

Pick your punches; always hit low;

Taste of snake or diesel oil –

I’m a papule, wen or whitlow,

I’m a vicious boil.

Some say that my bubble’s burst.

I came very very first!

 

I have every toddler’s charm,

Random tantrums by the score,

Full of drivel, full of smarm –

Hear my tiny roar –

Jim-jams decked with stripes and stars,

I bang my rattle on these bars.

 

Look inside my yellow-bile eye,

Count electors, state by state,

Watch the winners pile high, while I

Hyperventilate:

My finger jabs! I am divine!

The world is mine all mine all MINE.

The Playboy of the Western World

Trump refused to accept Biden’s victory in the US presidential election.


8 November 2020

POETRY KIT WEBRING

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