by Steven Kent
I s'pose we shouldn't be surprised.
Supporters gonna hoot and holler
Seeing homeboy on the dollar,
MAGA Caesar monetized.
In Trump We Trust—they sing his praise.
The real world knows, of course, he's lying;
Still, there's little point denying
Just how fast he coins a phrase.
Steven Kent is the poetic alter ego of writer and musician Kent Burnside. His work appears in 251, Asses of Parnassus, The Dirigible Balloon, Light, Lighten Up Online, The Lyric, New Verse News, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Philosophy Now, The Pierian, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry, Snakeskin, and Well Read. His collections I Tried (And Other Poems, Too) (2023) and Home at Last (2025) are published by Kelsay Books.
