by Steven Kent
The Guardian, October 7, 2026
Imagine all the crony moola
I'll acquire when I beat Lula.
Got to get the courts controlled here;
That's a bill of goods I've sold here.
Right away I'll pardon father.
Legal channels? Yeah... why bother?
Democracy is what we're after—
Yanqui, you've no room for laughter!
Steven Kent is the poetic alter ego of writer and musician Kent Burnside. His work appears in 251, The Asses of Parnassus, Blue Unicorn, The Dirigible Balloon, The Hypertexts, Light, Lighten Up Online, The Lyric, The New Verse News, The Orchards Poetry Journal, Philosophy Now, The Pierian, Pulsebeat Poetry Journal, The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry, Snakeskin, Well Met, and Well Read. His collections I Tried (And Other Poems, Too) (2023) and Home at Last(2025) are published by Kelsay Books.