By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes
CARNIVAL SEASON
It’s embarrassing
to be an American abroad
when Trump vomits swastikas
on covers of European newspapers
It’s always carnival season
in Washington:
Politicians
have become masks of themselves
throwing plastic beads
to topless figures –
dancing town squares
What troubles me
are the children listening to clowns
picking up fistfuls of confetti
off dirty streets
As if party favors
were precious stones