Poems of the Week

Great American Patriots

by Julia Griffin

“What many people don’t understand, or don’t want to understand, is that Wayne, Chris [Cox] and the folks who work so hard at the @NRA are Great People and Great American Patriots. They love our Country and will do the right thing. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” —
@RealDonaldTrump, February 22, 2018

Listen to Wayne, the stony-souled:
Don’t let this be a runaway train!
Crying white mothers are ratings gold.

Hear how the freedom-haters scold:
Can’t they respect the victims’ pain?
Listen to Wayne, the stony-souled.

Don’t imagine we’re going to fold;
We’re geared up with a new refrain:
Crying white mothers are ratings gold.

You want to have your thoughts controlled
By some red Euro-Socialist reign?
Listen to Wayne, the stony-souled.

The White House tweets to the world: Behold!
A Great American is our Wayne:
Crying white mothers are ratings gold,

But the NRA is the one foretold
To MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
Listen to Donald, the bought and sold.
Crying white mothers are ratings gold.