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The Fart Heard Around the World (A Thinking Man's Poem)

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that Trump later adlibbed at Idlib

and Rudy paces in front of the Tower

saying Pull It Pull It Pull It

to dishdashing pashersby

and falcon-masked women, who won't listen to their falconers

now allowed to steer self-driving cars for photo ops

no takers of faux farts or other false reports here

and poor Rudy missing his nephew sorely

puts his finger back where it belongs, next to the thumb

and goes home, thinking he'll run for mayor of America again
.

Somewhere in America there's a well-tilled field

a loamy loam out of which mighty arms now sprout

and reach up, acres of them, with fierce fists clenched

and a flower, a single middle petal, raises like a finger from the fists

to bouquet the coming revolution

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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