nothin Ode To Trump #26 | New Haven Independent

Ode To Trump #26

Zoe Matthiessen

Donald Trump & The Solar Eclipse

The country had been warned at least since June
The sun eclipsed will still display
A corona of dangerous light
Across the totality of the moon.
So Americans donned their shades
The eclipse specs were square yet cool.
Vietnam? China? Wherever they were made
But not the president, not he to follow the rule.
Caught without them in his pocket
Before aides could hand him up a pair
He raised his eyes toward the sun, he squinted,
The aides called up, don’t do it, sir, don’t stare.
Who me? I’ll show old Sol who’s boss
I’ll show the reporters too … he’d show everyone
What he was made of, a human sun.
Well, at least he’d show us how a real man dares
How someone already without vision
Can somehow lose it, once again, beyond repair.

In addition to working as a reporter for The Independent since the online paper was established, Allan Appel has published 14 books, including eight novels, and two books of poetry, New Listings and Not So Much Love of Flowers. He is writing 70 poems in honor of 70-year-old Donald Trump’s first year in office; click here to read about that project. Appel’s new novel, The Book of Norman, a send-up of Jewish-Mormon relations, is due out next week from MandelVilar Press.

Allan Appel Photo

Twin solar gazers at the Fair Haven branch library.

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