Keep it up — attack after attack —
Matters little who gets slaughtered
Or blown to bits season to season.
Certainly less than the words you
might use to frame a reason.
Arrange your own facts.
Stage your best scene,
Polish your image,
Be the hero,
first act to last.
Tear up the people’s house
Decorate with gold
Be first with the most-est
Always aggressive, and
Painfully boisterous.
Never make excuses,
Keep fighting back.
Speak words that sting:
Be loud, be plain,
In media range of social exchange.
Talk down to the dumb,
the passive, the overly reflective,
and save a sharp jab for the inoffensive.
Fire the ugly and disagreeable,
Bully the disliked,
the outcast and weak.
Never forget your fans
Be the accomplished showman
Give them Las Vegas moments:
second rate singers
in skimpy costumes with
plenty of cleavage,
accompanied by laughter
at mean pointed zingers.
Be completely outlandish
wrapped in the flag —
Praise the red, the white,
and maybe the blue, and
At all costs hold center stage
Or threaten to sue.
Fly our colors — the ones we like.
Give free red Maga hats to
favorite clans.
Use plenty of glitz,
with swaggering swingers
have a blast.
Tell the uninvited:
go take a hike.
Surprise friends with smiling grit.
Throw outrageous parties,
Add up the grift,
Grant a few pardons,
Never show mercy,
Pass tax reductions
for the wealthy –
make them richer.
And should your gold star performance
Land in a ditch,
Yell conspiracy,
Call out your crowd,
Or if the three ring circus
Runs into a glitch
Say it’s horrible —
You knew nothing about it.
Soon your troubles will be forgotten.
With all your bravado you win every squabble.
Might even pitch the King of Sweden
To award a new Nobel Prize,
Named best in show
for being so bold.
Keep stoking hate
Tweet ignorance and fear,
You might even escape your
well deserved fate
in the fires of humiliation
By self immolation.
01/07/26 thh
Thoughts Have Hands 