Donald Trump: the Clorox Couplets

Not-So-Heroic Couplets by Donald Trump care of Michael R. Burch To outfox the pox: kill yourself first, with Clorox! And since death is the goal, mainline Lysol! No vaccine? Just chug Mr. Clean! Is a cure out of reach? Fumigate your lungs, with bleach! To immunize your thorax, destroy it with Borax! To immunize your bride, drown her in Opti-cide! To end all future gridlocks, gargle with Vaprox! Now, quick, down the Drain-o with old Insane-o NoBrain-o! Trump’s real goals are obvious and yet millions of Americans remain oblivious. —Michael R. Burch Less Heroic Couplets: Just Desserts by Michael R. Burch “The West Antarctic ice sheet might not need a huge nudge to budge.” And if it does budge, denialist fudge may force us to trudge neck-deep in sludge! NOTE: The first stanza is a quote by paleoclimatologist Jeremy Shakun in Science magazine. Less Heroic Couplets: Miss Bliss by Michael R. Burch Domestic “bliss”? Best to swing and miss! Less Heroic Couplets: Then and Now by Michael R. Burch BEFORE: Thanks to Brexit, our lives will be plush! ... AFTER: Crap, we’re going broke! What the hell is the rush? Less Heroic Couplets: Dear Pleader by Michael R. Burch Is our Dear Pleader, as he claims, heroic? I prefer my presidents a bit more stoic. Less Heroic Couplets: Less than Impressed by Michael R. Burch for T. M., regarding certain dispensers of lukewarm air Their volume’s impressive, it’s true ... but somehow it all seems “much ado.” Less Heroic Couplets: Poetry I by Michael R. Burch Poetry is the heart’s caged rhythm, the soul’s frantic tappings at the panes of mortality. Less Heroic Couplets: Poetry II by Michael R. Burch Poetry is the trapped soul’s frantic tappings at the panes of mortality. Less Heroic Couplets: Seesaw by Michael R. Burch A poem is the mind teetering between fact and fiction, momentarily elevated. Less Heroic Couplets: Passions by Michael R. Burch Passions are the heart’s qualms, the soul’s squalls, the brain’s storms. Keywords/Tags: Donald Trump, coronavirus, president, poet, poems, poetry, heroic couplets, couplet, humor, humorous, Clorox, Lysol, disinfectants, light verse, parody, satire, America, USA, giggle, political, natural disasters