Hanging out in Mar-a-Lago, now
that’s cool:
somebody told me it should be
Lago-a-Mar
that’s what will happen to Florida;
haven’t a clue what she meant
and she certainly didn’t have a pussy worth grabbing
women like that should not be seen or heard
the rest of women should only be seen:
You hear me, boys?
Me, a loser?
How much are you worth?
How many golf courses, hotels and apartment blocks do you own?
The fuck do you know!
I decide who loses…
© Experimentsinfiction 2020, All Rights Reserved
About this poem
I wrote ‘Denial’ for Earthweal’s weekly challenge. Jim is hosting this week and has given us the following instructions:
‘THE CHALLENGE is to write a poem from the point of view of someone who is a climate change denier or a climate solution denier or someone who just doesn’t care because they won’t be around when it happens.
Choose any form you like, or go with free verse. Create a fictional character, preferably, because that’s more fun and is liberating. the key is to provide some insight into what makes the character tick, how they arrived at that point of view. An out of work pipe welder, for example, will have a completely different view of oil pipelines than a climate activist. What’s the character’s motivation — self- interest, livelihood, fear, dislike of liberals, or just likes his/her car? You can make the character sympathetic or not. Use satire if you want, but remember there’s a thin line between satire and snark, a line I’ve crossed many times. You don’t have to necessarily mention climate change in the poem, it’s enough to allude to it or create a profile of a character who would have climate change denial as part of his/her world view.’
It was easy for me to imagine a character deep in the throes of denial. The biggest imaginative leap for me was imagining that this character was literate enough to write a poem of any kind.
I hear that Trump is denying that he is in denial. 😂😂
What else would you expect?
Wow that’s great. He certainly is a crazy man.
This is great! You really captured his voice. I’m so glad he’s on the way down…
I can hardly bear to listen to his voice but I tried to recreate it. I’ll be glad to see the back of him!
Oh and we thought it was over. you nailed it again!!! NICE JOB HERE Ingrid! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
❤️❤️Cindy
I don’t know if I should have resurrected him 😳 but when I hear the word ‘denial’ only one person springs to mind…❤️😊😂
Oh man!!! I think the authorities need to step in🤪🤞😡
think bury deep! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dead on Ingrid! You captured the essence of the man and his congenital unpleasantness! JIM
I wouldn’t even begin to try to inhabit the toxic swamp that isTrump. But you have captured him perfectly. (K)
Yes I think we all want to forget him now. But it would be nice to see him forcibly evicted!
It may come to that im afraid, and that would not be a good thing.
Now that was scary! I could hear him through your words, Ingrid.
Yes I don’t know what value in resurrecting him except to make us think about how he could have been elected in the first place with such abhorrent views.
‘Create a fictional character’
You made this fictional character really come alive 🙂 well done…..
What do they tell you at school? ‘Always read the question’ 😝 Perhaps I just wish he was fictional!
Well done. You captured a voice perfectly here.
He will never be other than he is……..but it is dangerous what he will do in the next 70 days to de-stabilize things. His big mad face at the Remembrance Day ceremony – shudder….he must be great fun to be around right now.
I hope America’s” Embarrassment in Chief “leaves in disgrace! Wishful thinking, I am afraid. He may be calling up his hard-core supporters, who belong to dozens of “militias,” to barricade him in the White House. I certainly hope not! Great Trump impersonation, Ingrid! 🙂
That the transition won’t be peaceful is a real worry. I think people are wrong to be complacent about this, though I too hope there is no trouble!