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| Cartoon adapted from and image illustrating "The Trump Virus: A Daily News Brief" by Gabe Capone. |
As I awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, I found
I had been transformed into a quivering sack of mucous.
Slime oozed out of every orifice, a glaze of yellow-green
the exact sheen of Vaseline exuded from my pores. Someone
was churning slugs into smoothies and they poured out
of my nose. I began to watch Fox News. I swallowed
huge globules of misinformation, and switched my vote
to Donald Trump. Everywhere I walked, I trailed a ribbon
of glistening lies.
Barbara Crooker is the author of six books of poetry, including Small Rain (Purple Flag Press, 2014) and Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems (FutureCycle Press, 2015). Her work has appeared in The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Ted Kooser's "American Life in Poetry," and on The Writer’s Almanac.