Saturday, January 18, 2025

Stone Soup Croutons, 1-15-25: Non Fact-Checked Techbro News


Stone Soup Croutons is a weekly poem I write using lines and impressions selected from Stone Soup Poetry's open mic readers and features. I figure out a title (and sometimes the rest of the poem) later. You can read the other ones I've done since 2015 here.
 
I also have a book collecting the best of my first year of poems. Click here to purchase it.

Jennifer Martelli featured this past Wednesday. It was sad and wonderful and ominous. Just as a pre-Trump presidency reading should be. Especially the second time around. 
 
I tried to keep some of the serious tones of Jennifer's reading and the open micers' choices intact in the poem. I'm afraid it comes across as nonsense. Linear thought is almost not enough to contain pre-Trump anxiety. 
 
People will be either celebrating or waiting out Trump in smug isolation, but I'm not, and I appreciate the others who aren't. 
 
I also respect the people who are waiting out or even hiding for the next four years with incredible trepidation. At least you're smart enough to know why you're afraid. 

None of this intro has much to do with the poem. Or maybe it does. I'll let you decide.

Thanks for reading.


Non Fact-Checked Techbro News

All green now shoots up as money.
No more crunchy grass hurting feet!

Over cost of bacon, Ob-La-De goes
to war once again with Ob-La-Da!
 
Out now! Charles Bukowski/Hunter S.
Thompson Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Authors!

Writers put down pens and paper 
in place of peace at any or all cost!

Hangman post crushed by weight
of Trump's sins. Now he's free to go!

Good guys no more. Now voyeurs
for the end of world and history!

Hurry says online Larry, or ghost of
Larry's bot, all those braveless bots 

trading Walmart porn! No forgiving 
or forgetting under gaslight moon!
 
Bite by bite, the critters on your face
will make you more beautiful! Fire 

will be made more beautiful. You'll
want to rest in a bed of charcoal

while Maury Povich tells Saint Peter
that he is not the father of Christ!

Powdered mill passed as mother's!
Everyone has a snake skin to peel!

Squint hard enough, you'll find
Jesus is the son of Donald Trump

and also his greatest great grandpa. 
Mythology even more penis-centric!

Expect to be disregarded if you don't
wear our holy symbols in your mouth!

It's easy at first until it no longer is!
loyalty is the new cancer you want!
 

Special thanks to Nike Truth, Ron Bremner, Rita Rose, Richard Spisak, Ari Whipple, Mary Jennings, Bil Lewis, Edward S. Gault, Jon Wesick, Jan Rowe, Karen Klein, Rich Boucher, Mary Ann Honaker, Robert Fleming, James Van Looy and special feature Jennifer Martelli,

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