TRUMP OF THE WILL

by George Salamon

"That 'Triumph of the Will' is a great propaganda film, there is no doubt…”  —Roger Ebert

Watching the 'Save America' rallies

for T***p is a reminder that we cannot

do Fascism the way the Germans did

as was captured in that infamous movie

of the Nazi Party rallies back in 1934.

What we see in Washington is a drab,

rag-tag bunch of stragglers, wannabe

warriors for a stumblebum president

clinging to power, any movie made of

their antics would gather the worst of

reviews on Rotten Tomatoes for any

"Trump of the Will" version of an ism

that may come to America by the ballot

box on petit bourgeois feet instead.

George Salamon wonders if the "It can't happen here" argument about fascism is still heard in faculty lounges and Starbucks coffee houses in the blue areas of America.

OLD GUY AWAITS VACCINE

by Earl J. Wilcox

 "Time waits for no man,” watercolor by SuayaArt.

So far I have outlived whooping cough, measles, mumps, shingles,

strokes, dementia, the Apocalypse, the Rapture, three years eleven

months of the T***P madness, perhaps one Kardashian, zombie

uprisings, my dear mate of six decades, three siblings, one child, eviction,

twenty-four Marvel Universe movies, hundreds of episodes of Friends

and Big Bang Theory, dear Alex Trebek, bankruptcy, cancer, plus

millions of maladies and diseases about which I am totally ignorant.

If I live another few days or weeks, perhaps the vaccine will find me

and my generation still optimistic we can add Covid-19 to the lists

of days and hours of this world we miss.

Earl Wilcox in his late 80s awaits the vaccine in South Carolina.