[Quincy Lehr]

THIS POEM pwns most of the anti-Trump verse from people who call themselves poets. Plus, he has tiger's blood.

[Ian Hoffman]

Shoat! Charlie Sheen is for real!

[R. S. Gwynn]

The Windsor is generally considered one mark of a parvenu.

[Julie Steiner]

The poem doesn't strike me as the pinnacle of literary genius, but whatever floats your shoat.

Shoat happens?

[John Whitworth]

It's a sort of rather crappy ee cummings, isn't it? About par for a luvvy. Do you call them that?

[Quincy Lehr]

Cummings didn't do invective like this. As I said elsewhere, a large vocabulary and history of cocaine abuse CSM make one oracular in Trump's America. Plus, he has tiger's blood.

[Richard Meyer]

Originally Posted by Quincy Lehr

Cummings didn't do invective like this …

True, cummings din't write like this, but he was quite good at invective. Consider these lines from one of his famous antimilitary poems:

i sing of Olaf glad and big
whose warmest heart recoiled at war:
a conscientious object-or

and

“I will not kiss your fucking flag”

and

Olaf(upon what were once knees)
does almost ceaselessly repeat
“there is some shit I will not eat”


Richard

[Quincy Lehr]

Olaf, nevertheless, is in a different register, the register of a man who's never snorted cocaine off a prostitute's breasts.

[Roger Slater]

That's true. Unless you've done that, you lack the moral authority to attack the president and your invective rings hollow.

[Michael Cantor]

The important thing, Roger, is that the poem is #louwbre, so the fact that it's mostly pose and little poetry is not a problem. (One of these days I'll have to ask Quincy what the hell #louwbre means, so I'll know where to snort and simper and express admiration or disdain, but I'm afraid the answer will be that if I have to ask I'll never understand.)