I branded you old and tired, sleepy,
your sex unable to rise. I called you
fool, idiot, champion of dog and cat
eaters, and I defeated you in these
elections; and in January I will
return to the White House. I have
achieved exactly what you feared.
And now your country’s in my doghouse.
And I am about to sit down to eat.
Indran Amirthanayagam has just published Seer (Hanging Loose Press) and The Runner's Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil). He is the translator of Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Dialogos Books). Mad Hat Press published his love song to Haiti: Powèt Nan Pò A (Poet of the Port). Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks) is a collection of Indran's poems. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly and helps curate Ablucionistas. He hosts the Poetry Channel on YouTube and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.