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Donald Trump contracted the Coronavirus. At first they said from Hope Hicks, whom they reported tested positive first. Then they added Melania into the picture, plus Kellyanne Conway. And a bunch more Republicans who often didn't wear masks at various events. They mentioned that Hope had flown on the President's plane with the usual entourage. And now everyone fears for their life. Everyone that was in contact with Donald J. Trump over the last several days when he was most infectious. Exhaling plenty of virus particles, while his audiences sat maskless for the most part, right next to each other. Primed to receive their gift from the meister superspreader as he bespoke his random words of truth and lie. To please the crowd. As is his m.o. Now he is in the hospital, apparently bound to survive. Perhaps with no sequelae. Still infectious for a few more days.

This poem is about The Beast. That could be here, there, and everywhere. Threatening a fearful society. Able to travel freely wherever it roams. Or is it some representative of our paranoia? Something to blame anything on, that we worry about? Rather than the President himself. There aliens engineering this treason? On the Earth, above it in our airplane lanes? . . . 

In honor of President Trump being stricken with the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, and being treated with two new drugs that apparently have produced improvement in his medical status, here is today's poem 'I Am A Virus.' Remdesivir and Regeneron should help the President, especially at this early stage of his disease. He will be watched over the weekend in the hospital. And he may be infectious for another week or so. Though some people have remained infectious for up to 27 days.

This poem on re-listening to it seems to be a personification of Mr. Trump and his own aggressive infective nature.

210,000 deaths in the USA and counting from Covid-19.

Hopefully, Donald Trump will not be another death added to the total. Melania seems to be less sick. Who knows how many of the exposed individuals at the many events Trump attended this past week will fall sick. No masks, no peace. For those concerned with their future health, worrying about what will be will be . . . 

Be Nice? Are we talking about Donald Trump!?? But, why not be chivalrous and uplifting, rather than disgraceful and embarrassing? We are post - 'debate' three days, more lying from Trump not knowing who the Proud Boys are when his son Don Jr. has been pictured with one of their leaders. He can't stop. He can't control himself. What a model for our nation! Our kids will be thinking that lying is normal, as is viciousness and intimidation and bullying and racist hate. But we do know Donald is insecure. Especially if we listen to his niece, psychologist Mary Trump, and his most intimate connection to the world for a decade, his designated thug and lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen in his new book 'Disloyal' - with its very interesting and entertaining view into our most evil, underhanded, lying, incapable President ever. Oh, yeah, and karma has struck its unavoidable gong: Donald, Melania, and Hope Hicks are testing positive for the coronavirus. Hopefully they will survive and come out the other side healthy with the after effects of humility and thankfulness infused into their souls.

After the agonizing irritating disruptive interruptive unrespectful unpresidential debate where Donald Trump could not get his lips together to condemn white supremacists, like the Proud Boys et al, but had the prepared phrase 'Stand back and stand by' stated quite clearly, we see Trump most clearly as the racist he is. For all the people who had hopes we were at the tipping point to deal with our centuries of endemic racism, those who marched peacefully, with respect for everyone, those who continue to suffer at the whim of racists who still rule this country, or do not condemn it and allow it to fester and continue....here is the poem 'Thicket Of Racists.'

After the extremely rude interruptive debate behavior of Donald Trump in 2020 Presidential Debate #1 Sept 29, Rudy Giuliani professes what a great performance Trump gave the nation. He is tweeting it widely, to much derision and annoyance, if you read the comments to his posts. But Rudy has been in Trump's corner before. Sinking to the level of the conman when he once had been a respected prosecutor. I'm not sure how respected he was as a Mayor of NYC, nor as a faithful husband. Michael Cohen's book 'Disloyal' is prominent right now, with much personal information that is very informative about his ex-Boss' personality and exploits. This poem actually was written in 2018, but with Rudy acting up, and Trump flaunting the debate rules to ruin the value of the debate itself, this poem re-arises to give us a window into this unholy trio on the eve of the 2020 election. When Rudy is electioneering for Trump, and the imprisoned Cohen is spilling the beans of truth behind Trump's racist curtain, not to mention the Proud Boys. Trump emboldening them and other right wing hate groups by declining to condemn them and other white supremacists threatening violence, when asked point blank by moderator from FOX News Chris Wallace. Robert Mueller is referred to in this poem, as is former WWII Japanese Emperor Hirohito, as history has moved along.

Meanwhile, Trump and Giuliani are going down in flames supporting each other's ineffable delusionary kamikaze self-destruction - respectively. Although I don't think that last word fairly could apply to either of them.

Exhume: definition >> dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground* 

This poem was written on February 16 2017, and is very appropriate for today. With the details of Donald Trump's taxes finally available for examination via the New York Times. 

Donald's grandfather, Friedrich, from whom the family fortune was founded, was deported from Bavaria after returning home at the beginning of the 20th century. The government of Bavaria was displeased that he had avoided serving his military obligation.

The truth is always a casualty of Donald Trump's >>20,000 false claims/lies spoken, since assuming the Presidency a month before this poem was written.

*Oxford Languages Dictionary

Make that 'Archie Bunker racism,' per Michael Cohen in his book 'Disloyal.' Which is proving very interesting with insight into Trump's motivations and aspirations, that he shared with - or foisted upon - Michael Cohen, Especially his disdain and jealous hate for Barack Hussein Obama. Always spoken by Trump to Cohen as all three names with the accent on the Hussein.

'Trump And His Followers,' today's poem, is in the moment with what is going on today with how much Trump's followers will allow themselves to accept. In their own decrepitude, as this man goes more and more ballistic in his blatant grab for power toward being The Dictator of America for Life. Unless he loses the 2020 election. Which would put him in an entirely different situation with the rule of law. That he has shown he cares little about. Same for our constitution. Same for, of course, our first woman to ever lie in state in the history of the USA. And second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Earning respect around the globe. But practically none with the most powerful Republicans, who only want to replace her ASAP with someone who can judge the 2020 election into a Trump win. 

Feckless - definition: lacking strength of character; irresponsible

Birtherism: no such term or word until 2011, when Donald Trump realized it would be a good idea to question if Barack Hussein Obama was born in the USA? or Kenya was his place of birth? 

Extinction of a species unique to a biome or perhaps a virome. This occurs every day, but is accelerated by the massive plundering and destroying of our environment, our planet, to the point today of now threatening our very existence. 'Rooted in an economic model based on the illusion of limitless growth and limitless greed, which violate planetary boundaries, and destroy the integrity of ecosystems and individual species.' That is what Vandana Shiva writes in her new book 'Oneness and the 1%.' From which I am sharing a couple of paragraphs in today's recorded podcast. 

Sound like something you know? Like Trump's 'philosophy'** of taking without giving, or considering anything besides his anthropocentric self and his greedy fellow plunderers as the center of the universe?

Whatever happened to peace and love? or peaceful co-existence? and tolerance? instead of racism and hate? Why are we allowing ourselves to be drawn down to the lowest common denominator by this denigrating insecure man deathly afraid of his karma coming to roost if he loses the election? Cheating like a demon, wrecking the very foundations of our democratic system, yearning to be Dictator and President-for-Life of our USA in his mad scramble to protect himself from the rule of law, AND the constitution - which he has grossly failed to protect.

** I know, I'm giving him way way way too much credit. He functions by instinct. Deep consideration is foreign to him and his decision making. Which he owes to us, an entire country of citizens for whom he is theoretically responsible. For life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not Putin, Erdogan, Xi and his love-letter writer Kim Jong-un.

Our democracy is in danger. Donald Trump is tipping us into his autocratic rule, aided by Mitch McConnell. 200,000 dead from the Coronavirus and he wants a mandate to continue acting out as badly as he has so far?! Now trying to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG) while 2020 voting has already started, after McConnell and the self-righteous Republicans declared in March 2016 that Barack Obama nominating a replacement for Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court could not be accepted! It was too close to election day!! 8 months away. And now we are actually in the process of the elections with Election Day itself less than 6 weeks away.

Now, to fight this unscrupulous sneak attack on our sense of fairness and justice by Mitch McConnell, our patriotism is called upon to save our country. Our politicians must do what they have been destined to do. And they must do it Obstinately!!! As the Republicans play, our heroes must fight back with equal force! And up the ante!!

Despite RBG's dying wish that her replacement not be confirmed until a new president has been installed, Mitch McConnell has elected not to respect her wish. But Senate Democrats have the power to stop him and his unethical Republicans.

The Senate runs on unanimous consent. If a single Senator objects to anything, even routine procedure, everything grinds to a halt. That is what Senate Democrats must do: block unanimous consent on every single thing for the rest of the year and until Inauguration Day. They will have to battle to exhaustion, like good soldiers! It will be America's best chance to stop Trump and McConnell from ruthlessly damaging our country.

This poem was written in September of 2017. It has the feeling of today and the evil seething our towers, steaming them up with ANGER!! The word near the end of the poem is mysterioused - make more mysterious. 'Invisible Sorcerers Working For Secret Contractors.' I'd like to dedicate it to my contractor friends Kelvin, Pete, Billy K, and Jess down on Marco Island.

Both these poems were written on February 1, 2017 - a few weeks after Donald Trump was inaugurated. With the biggest crowd ever! Right? Trump our P.T. Barnum. Always the superlative. Always the best. The biggest. Now we are bearing the fruit of our subjection to this venal cheat and conman. As he pushed Sean Spicer run out there to lie about the inauguration crowd, unable to even to properly tie his tie, now he lies and cheats about his performance with the Covid-19 epidemic. Two hundred thousand dead and he's doing a fine job. Sabotaging the post office to suppress the vote-by-mail in the time of Covid. Intending to take away your earned Social Security pension money by cancelling the payroll tax which would fund it for the next 20 years at least. In order to privatize it. People who don't read, believing his outlandish lies. Remember, he did say the coronavirus pandemic was a hoax as the year began and the number of deaths and new cases started mushrooming.

In America Double-Crossed Trump is already foreseen as a madman dictator. As he is who would prefer to be President for life. Rules really not made for him. He just plays to win. Democracy be damned. Morals non-existent in Trump's conscience. Roi d'Or is French for King of Gold.

In the second poem we catch the Thieves steal this and that/Put it under your hat/Stuff your coat/Like a desert packrat

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