a sonnet: On Donald's America

[terri_testing]

Comments

[jana_ch]

Meter and rhyme! Hurrah!

Credit where it's due

[terri_testing]

Not a reference to my fanfic, grin.

But if you like this poem's discipline, its adherence to meter and rhyme, I must give credit to my collaborator, Michael, whose suggestions as to how to hew to my meaning while improving my metrical technique were profoundly useful.

Re: Credit where it's due

[jana_ch]

As I think I've told you in person, when I write verse (almost invariably comic), I have a spirit of W.S. Gilbert looking over my shoulder, insisting that if he could sit up all night making sure his meter and rhyme were flawless, I can jolly well do the same. It's called light verse because all the heavy work is done by the poet.

Re: Credit where it's due

[terri_testing]

I shall be sure to pass this on to my critically supervising spirit! Thank you, Jana!

[vermouth1991]

From what info I could gather, however, Hillary Clinton is also a horrifying prospect if she ever becomes president. Only different "blocs" of people will be f@&ked than if Trump gets elected.

[oryx_leucoryx]

Since I probably can't post links please google "Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It’s Important". It's on a site called 'Common Dreams'

[alana_shee]

Going to take advantage of my insomnia-induced punch drunken state and comment.

I thought this was like an essay in a poem, it described really well what the movement that Trump has stirred up is, what it really is, and the last line - "sores must burst before they heal" - I thought was really good and probably the best to hope for

horrifying hillary?

[terri_testing]

Well. I'm working on the Hillary's America sonnet now; it's harder to write. Not that Donald's wasn't hard for me

Re: horrifying hillary?

[muisjelief]

It is that in a better world we'd be able to criticize Hillary and Obama, but they end up the default choices because of the nihilistic hate cult that is the American right. In my adolescence I was always quite fascinated by the various subversive analyses of American politics, about its harsh capitalism, its neo-liberalism and its imperialism, and I was also aware of how in Western history often the status quo and conventional wisdom has been very harmful to minorities or colonial countries. I read about Obama's capitulation to the industry by removing the public option from his health care plan, his secret wars in Pakistan and Yemen, his persecution of whistle blowers etc

[oryx_leucoryx]

See my response to vermouth1991.