Day 9, 2021
Turtlemania I am the Turtlemania creator, the master of senate, an accomplished tactician. Call me a superb strategist, with long To-Do list much's checked off but much more needs to be checked. take for instance these: Like, convict hillbilly Billy for extra- marital act. But my party's guy, he gets a pass. Check and check. Massive use of filibuster like a drunken sailor. Check. Obstruction is my middle name. I'm power drunk. Hold other party's supreme court nominee. for a year, Check. Get my party's justice, confirmed in no time. You can call me Moscow Mitch, that don't deter me. I may have failed making that black prez a one-termer, but I will make sure this next one fails. Power. Biyatch. Preen about deficit when the other party's prez rules. Check. Citizen's United flows sweet money, that's excellent. Still to do: Smack those corps down if they act all woke. Support a philanderer. check. Support his racism. Check. nourish dictatorial tendencies. Check. That's Power. Hold Full faith and credit hostage. Check. Government spending for not paid-fors tax cuts. Power, baby. Next up on list: Gerrymander. More Jim Crow - Can't have those wrong kind of voters voting me out of power. Call me Grim Reaper, call me Darth Vader, call me Midnight, Or Nuclear Mitch. Corrupt. I don't care. I win. Wield power. Uppity people need to be shown their place. Destroying democracy - To do. Turtles rule!
Notes:
I let it rip with a series of shadormas. I admit it, writing it made my vitriol really flow. I could have probably kept going longer. But, figure, I will revisit this some other time when I am little more calmer. I hope that history’s judgment is something very similar for this hypocritical power monger, who’s shredded and continues to tear the fabric of the national social contract. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Other notes: some places I counted ‘a’ as a syllable, other places I didn’t.
Today’s prompt:
Our (optional) prompt for the day is to write a poem in the form of a “to-do list.” The fun of this prompt is to make it the “to-do list” of an unusual person or character. For example, what’s on the Tooth Fairy’s to-do list? Or on the to-do list of Genghis Khan? Of a housefly? Your list can be a mix of extremely boring things and wild things. For example, maybe Santa Claus needs to order his elves to make 7 million animatronic Baby Yoda dolls, to have his hat dry-cleaned to get off all the soot it picked up last December, and to get his head electrician to change out the sparkplugs on Rudolph’s nose.
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