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Who Does He Think He’s Fooling?

July 20, 2018 by Ernie McCray

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By Ernie McCray

Who Does He Think He’s Fooling?

“No collusion,”
the man, with way more talk
than walk says.
And he flies across
waters to Helsinki
to meet and greet
a Russian of ill repute
who is seen
as our number one enemy,
a man who slapped our country
upside the head
like a Mafia Godfather
putting an underling
in his place,
interfering with a presidential race,
utilizing the wizardry
of technology,
exposing our inability
to think critically,
resulting, tragically,
in a wretched excuse of a human being
ascending to the presidency
like Hades rising from
darkness
to destroy humanity,
talking smack
throughout the process,
his latest jive
being his testifying
about how he wanted to “better personally assess”
the man with KGB and mass murderer
in his DNA and on his resume
and how he could only do that ALONE.

And I can only ask:
Who does he think he’s fooling?
There’s some colluding going on.

Assess? Please. Leave me ALONE.

And as to whether
he’s obstructing justice or not
all I know,
although it’s not a lot,
is:
everyday, when I rise,
I read, in the paper, the man’s lies
before I’ve fully stretched
my old body
and wiped my sleepy eyes,
having to re-realize
that it’s going to be
another day of
his crappy human
and public relations
and narcissistic self-congratulations
and phony accusations
and iterations
and insinuations
about “fake news,”
how we’ve been taken by the EU,
how the FBI doesn’t have a clue,
how Maxine Waters has a low IQ –
hocus pocus voodoo
to erase our rearview view
of him
firing a man who
knew too much;
lying about some people with Russian ties
with whom
his son was in touch;
dangling “pardons” and such
to keep a few mouths shut;

which begs the question:
Who does he think
he’s fooling?

Trying to shine us on
like we were just born,
like we’ve
not been watching
him deceive and impede
justice and so on
ever since he
came onto the scene full on
like Jesse James and Al Capone,
lawless to the bone…

And, he comes out of the meeting in Helsinki
touting his worn out
aspersions and diversions
about Witch Hunts
and Hillary’s emails,
and his “both sides are too blame”
silly tale
and he takes a dictator’s side
against his FBI,
declaring that his “boss” in the Kremlin denies
trying to destabilize
our citizens’ social and political lives,
singing a song
about how “We must get along”
to which one of his own
says “This is bizarre
and flat-out wrong”
and, in one moment,
he sends a wink in Putin’s direction
to go along
with so much that has gone wrong.

But come on:
Who does he think he’s fooling?

The collusion and the obstruction
is in our faces everyday
and now “treason”
seems like the question for the day
as the president,
I would say,
has wandered
into traitorous territory.

Adding another chapter
to a sad sad story.

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Ernie McCray

Ernie McCray

I was raised in a loving and alive home, in a black neighborhood filled with colorful characters in Tucson, Arizona. Such an environment gave me a hint that life has to be grabbed by the tail as tight as a pimple on a mosquito's butt. With no BS and a whole lot of love. So, from those days to now I get up every morning set on making the world a better place. On my good foot*, and I hope my writing reflects that. *an old black expression
Ernie McCray

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Comments

  1. TPierce says

    July 20, 2018 at 10:37 pm

    Excellent.

    • Shirley Sprinkles says

      July 25, 2018 at 6:44 am

      You said a mouthful!

  2. David Gangsei says

    July 25, 2018 at 10:47 am

    Ernie – I would love to hear you rap this one live,with some percussion and an arrangement behind you. You deliver the bad news in a style that puts a smile on my face and some energy to keep resisting. thanks

  3. Stan Levin says

    July 25, 2018 at 12:00 pm

    Ern …
    I don’t expect you to put the cabosh on me for taking the liberty of giving it wings and flying it that-a-way to my reader list. For the record, I do not do rap …. only sometimes wrap ….
    You brother for as long as it takes
    Stan
    (aka Dorian G.)

  4. Nancy Boskin-Mullen says

    July 25, 2018 at 2:42 pm

    This makes me want to stomp my feet
    and not in a happy tappy kind of way
    but in a mad and outraged way
    of yelling at democracy
    stand up, speak out, this cannot be!

  5. Gustavo Segade says

    July 26, 2018 at 11:58 am

    He is fooling 41% of the nation.

  6. Bob "Hubba Jubba:" Moss says

    July 31, 2018 at 12:46 am

    This lousy, losing, so called “leader” will well get his due in time; may it be sooner than later! Great literary exercise (as always) Ernie.

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