by Terry S. Johnson
from “Trump Turns Staid Process Into Spectacle as Aspirants Parade to His Door,”
 |
| President-elect Donald Trump heads inside the clubhouse following his meeting with David McCormick, president of the management committee at Bridgewater Associates, at Trump International Golf Club in Bedminster Township, N.J. Drew Angerer/Getty Images via NPR, November 20, 2016 |
Trump
inscrutable
Spectacle for
the world
a pageant
Teasing
contenders
The Club’s farmhouse
gushed
former adversaries
“phony”
Preference for older white men
military
No
public process
Discarded
election cycle
Make
deals
Shape
posture
Bursts
of
disapproval
“ – nothing
funny at all.”
Terry S. Johnson explored careers as a newspaper advertising clerk, a library assistant and a professional harpsichordist before serving as a public school teacher for over twenty-five years. She earned her M.F.A. in Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and has published in many anthologies and journals. Her first book Coalescence was published in 2014 by WordTech and won an honorable mention award in the New England Book Festival.