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Monday, August 05, 2024

HOW DARE SHE?

by Steven Kent


"Trump's usual sexist sneers don't work against Harris--and to top it off, she's laughing at him" —The Guardian, August 1, 2024



Don't need writers, don't need wits,

I'll just play my greatest hits:

Sexist jibes, election fables—

Hold on, Harris turned the tables?

Days ago my name was feared,

Now she stoops to call me weird?

No decorum; downright shocking;

Nasty woman—so much mocking!



Steven Kent is the poetic alter ego of writer and musician Kent BurnsideHis work appears in 251, Asses of Parnassus, Light, Lighten Up Online, The New Verse News, Philosophy Now, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry, and SnakeskinHis collection I Tried (And Other Poems, Too) was published in 2023 by Kelsay Books.