Stop Quacking

The blood orange sun over the Hudson 

Signals just the beginning of the real

Wildfire, hurricane and earthquake season

Presidential election

The plume of smoke that rode the jet stream 

Three thousand miles comes from 

The wonderful world of color

And manipulation

Disneyland is burning down

Like Atlanta in Gone With the Wind

Minnie grabbed the buckboard reins

Knowing the film better than Mickey

Somebody left Goofy behind

Who enjoyed full citizenship

While Pluto was treated like a dog

Couldn’t bark English

Ducky Donald is quacking up the Gulf

As clouds bigger than Montana 

Block the light

And drown out other views

Donald is going to be Jack Lantern

This Halloween

While Washington Joe 

A cranium with eyes

Donald will shine the light

Of his celebrity out his mouth

While Joe will mask

The un-gummed teeth of his grin

How do you like your leaders?

Cautious mole in the hole

Or grasshopper in the autumn wind

While the Supreme Court just lost a giant

Don Arrup

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