We’ve seemingly never had a president who so frequently declares
a crisis or even starts one and then takes credit for solving it.
—Brendan Nyhan, Medium
When I was ten and had the vocabulary of a ten-year-old,
I found three baby rabbits, huddled in a field beside our house.
Carefully, I scooped them in my hands and took them home.
“I saved 3 baby RABITS!!!” I could have written later,
never mind the rabbits’ mother would have probably returned.
Forget the fact that I asked my friend John Fletcher
to come to my house with a surrogate mom, John’s cat, Miss Kitty,
who killed one bunny in an instant, leaving
me with two, one of whom I stepped on,
the second dying from apparent shock
when I showed him at Show & Tell.
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Mark Williams‘s poems have appeared in The Hudson Review, The Southern Review, Rattle, Nimrod, and The American Journal of Poetry. His poems in response to the Trump administration have appeared in Poets Reading the News, Writers Resist, Tuck Magazine, and The New Verse News.
Photo of Donald Trump signing an executive order to place further sanctions on Iran taken Monday, June 24, 2019 by the White House.
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