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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

A TIME TO PLANT, A TIME TO MOW

a DJT “Four Seasons Landscaping” moment


by John Stickney



AI-generated graphic by NightCafĂ© for The New Verse News.


“You know, grass has a lifetime 

like people have a lifetime, 

and the lifetime of this grass 

has long been gone. 

When you look at the parks 

where the grass is all tired, 

exhausted. 


We're going to redo the grass 

with the finest grasses. 

I know a lot about grass.

I own a lot of golf courses. 

If you don't have good grass, 

you aren't in business 

very long.”


So sayeth the Lord.

Amen.



Author’s note: This is a DJT verbatim poem from remarks made August 13.



John Stickney is a poet and writer originally from Cleveland, Ohio, currently living outside Charlotte, NC.