Another in the occasional series, #ExecutiveQuatrains, to welcome in the new year, as it were.
The occasion: #Trumpo’s Venezuelan intervention.
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Beep beep! #Trumpo coming through!! In his Pretty Radically Awesome Tank!!! (New #ExecutiveQuatrains.)
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While we’re noting the petty dictator playbook posturing of the President, here are some quatrains on that very matter, complete with an image crudely adapted with apologies from the great #GaryLarson:
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What’s Musky saying to the Martian lobster? Why a Florentine angel when the whole conceit of these rough n ready stanzas is to contrast the careening present US administration with the wily and long-lived Republic of Venice? I guess we’ll never really know…
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Posted a few days back, but sharing here just before the next flooding of the area can begin, the 10th of the #ExecutiveQuatrains, on that entirely unexpected sundering of the ties of ‘friendship’ between #Trumpo and #Musk:
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Meanwhile, to mark the occasion, here’s a rough n ready set of quatrains about the Antipope:
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We’re still open for responses to the ongoing gush of Executive Orders, currently at 152 (143 in the first 100 days!).
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New posts every Thursday!
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The image accompanying this set of #ExecutiveQuatrains is cobbled together from #Magritte and the compelling illustration by Javier Jaén to the 2016 article by Jane Mayer about Tony Schwartz, who actually wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’.
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While we are between outages and outrages, we realise that we haven’t yet posted these #ExecutiveQuatrains on #Trumpo’s dealings with the courts and fake concepts like justice and responsibility for his actions:
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So the small hope is: just as every vote counts, so too with every verse. Maybe someone will read them sometime, and they won’t all be left to the infinitely patient Recording Angel, whose side these particular examples are not fit to be on.
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Hopefully the endeavour is sort of worthwhile in the sense that there should be a complete discourse of opposition, covering testimony, legal argument, journalism, plus as wide a range of art forms as possible, right down to these rough music starter-kit stanzas.
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No, I’m not quite keeping up with #Trumpo’s Executive Orders, which passed 111 some time ago, but then, what exactly is the point of such poetic protests? ‘Send us your thoughts, prayers, and some more poems,’ as no-one asked ever…
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Here’s No.7 in the #ExecutiveQuatrains series, steaming along in the wake of both our #EcoSonnetChain and the #ExecutiveDisobediences (more of which this Thurs).
Today’s verses are tariffic, with an added whiff of brimstone:
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This latest in the #ExecutiveQuatrains series just in from Phobos: no.6, ‘#ElonMusk’s on Mars’
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Apologies to (and in memory of) #RobertCalvert, Donald A. Wollheim, and Alex Schomberg. (Link to #Hawkwind’s classic in the following post.)
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