Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive Quatrains, 15: Triumphus Trumpi This is not, as Bowie states, America - but that is, and that, and so is that! Attack us, Caracas, if only with words: we have dabs on…

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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Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive Quatrains, 12: Dissemble the Troops! (with all due acknowledgement to Don Hunstein) ‘Reassemble the troops - my birthday nears: may the tramp of their boots assuage…

Beep beep! #Trumpo coming through!! In his Pretty Radically Awesome Tank!!! (New #ExecutiveQuatrains.)

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Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive Quatrains, 11: The Trumpo Town Riots (This is of course a mirror image of my favourite Gary Larson cartoon, reversed and crudely politicised to symbolise the stale crumb…

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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Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive quatrains, 10: Elon begone During the cool eleven hundred year reign of La Serenissima each Doge flung a wedding ring into the mere Grand Canal to marry that lissom m…

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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Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive Quatrains, 9: Trumpo as Antipope Here’s Point-n-Iffy False Don in Mar-a-L’Avignon. How can you tell? Well, it’s not his middle finger such as True Trumpo raises, so…

Meanwhile, to mark the occasion, here’s a rough n ready set of quatrains about the Antipope:

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Executive Disobediences – Poem, baby, poem! New Boots and Pantisocracies knew this day would come: the day we would have to rouse ourselves from our periodic slumber to speak out once again. And we’re sure you know what has rattled us …

We’re still open for responses to the ongoing gush of Executive Orders, currently at 152 (143 in the first 100 days!).

Submission details here:

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Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All In “The Art of the Deal,” Tony Schwartz helped create the myth that Trump is a charming business genius. Now he calls him unfit to lead.

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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Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive Quatrains, 8: a sonnet Trumpo doesn’t think it has been proven that lobsters and/or humans suffer - it’s just some woo woo dreamt up by a coven of the nasty, and no l…

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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Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive Quatrains, 7: Trumpo the Tariffic (Detail from ‘The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine’, by artists from the circle of Simone Martini, c.1340, but with what looks like m…

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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Post by @billherbert23 · 1 image 💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Executive Quatrains, 6: (from the playlist) Elon Musk’s on Mars (After Robert Calvert, Donald A. Wollheim, and Alex Schomberg) Laputas of plastic float on the seas, but Elon M…

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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