Spectacle
Fascist is a lazy pejorative.
Too often a head of state struts and preens,
Engineering unedifying scenes;
His rhetoric and bluster combative.
The president becomes the spectacle
Personified, appears more an unsurer
Il Duce, than some latter day Fuehrer,
In his pomposity. The debacle
Unfolding of governance by whim,
And ideology of “what I say
Is forever true”, at least for today:
All resolution dissolves in him.
Endorsed by a cabal of the willing,
Willing themselves a financial killing.
D. A.