This trilogy of satiric sonnets is dedicated\u00a0to\u00a0Dr. Eileen\u00a0Rosenberg, formerly\u00a0Sister Marie Jose,\u00a0my homeroom, French language,\u00a0and English\u00a0teacher at Notre Dame High School, in Elmira,\u00a0NY, from\u00a0school year 1963 to 1966. She has inspired\u00a0me\u00a0for more\u00a0than\u00a050 years. I had the wonderful pleasure\u00a0of reconnecting with her over the holidays. My inspiration here comes\u00a0from\u00a0two French lyric poets, quoted below.\u00a0Thanks, Eileen, for\u00a0opening the worlds of\u00a0philosophy, literature,\u00a0peace, love, discipline, tolerance\u00a0and understanding to me.\u00a0With all my\u00a0platonic love, merci beaucoup, Eileen.
\n\u00a0
\nChump Trump Kicked out of the \u2018Dump\u2019
\n\u201c\u2026and I don\u2019t have any fun, powerful, and with no strength to cope, well received, dismissed by everyone\u201d
\n\u2014Francois Villon (1431-1463?)<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s I am, bigly man at Mar-A-Lago
\nfrom the White House \u2018dump\u2019 I come
\ngot kicked right out the door on my bum
\ncan\u2019t compare with that guy from Chicago.
\n\u00a0Believe me I didn\u2019t like it in DC much either
\nmy Jersey golf courses were too far away
\nhard to reach when I gave tweeting a breather
\nnow I drive a golf cart right out to the fairway.
\n\u00a0European allies heard to say, \u201cThis guy is insane.\u201d
\nChinese copy me, \u201cMaking China Great Again\u201d
\nI\u2019ll tweet for an hour more and go golfing then
\nPutin\u2019s KGB rats and tactics are hard to explain.
\n\u00a0Gotta new smart phone ring with cathedral chimes
\nit repeats, \u201cNo Collusion\u201d a total of sixteen times.
\n\u00a0
\nSpecial Counsel Means Business
\n\u201cI was so assailed by the memory of that grand
\nbeauty I recall, all this world means nothing at all!\u201d
\n\u2014Charles D\u2019Orleans (1394-1465)<\/p>\n
\u00a0I was assailed with questions by the Grand Jury
\na messy memory of which I\u2019d rather not recall
\nby him who formerly led the FBI without worry
\ngaining information from email and phone calls.
\n\u00a0I flipped info, a sheep sheared, three bags full
\nother witnesses cried to their lawyers for days
\nI cried mercy mercy too, wiping my own eyes
\nthe Special Counselor means business after all.
\nMcMasters, Mattis, and Kelly, all generals three
\nalong with many lawyers participate in the stall.
\n\u00a0Tweety Twit more tweets distorting democracy
\nobfuscation and distraction in Congressional halls
\nnow the real media listens and begins to realize
\nthe victims of a Kremlin \/ Capitol Hill compromise.
\n\u00a0
\nSpecial Counsel Does Business
\n\u201c… here\u2019s a truth that will appall: Death wages war without surcease; If there\u2019s no way to make peace.\u201d
\n\u2014inspiration from Charles D\u2019Orleans (1394 -1465)<\/p>\n
\u00a0Closed hearing testifying in the District of Columbia
\nas temperatures drop to zero my blood pressure rises
\ninformation on bank accounts in Malta and Crimea
\nI start to pay attention to what my attorney advises.
\n\u00a0The entire 2016 Presidential campaign it seems to me
\nwas a chaotic internecine mess from start to finish
\nwith huge bundles of international money laundry
\nmultiple examples of collusion they can\u2019t diminish.
\n\u00a0Blondie bling thing suffered from lack of knowledge
\nabout most everything but bankruptcy and real estate
\nsurprised about the strength of the electoral college
\nhe really liked the simplicity of Make America Great.
\n\u00a0Though in actuality the narcissist reality TV show star
\nincreased national division and made people hate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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