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To the Degenerate Party

9/30/2017

 
It seems that overnight (or in the morning) a tweetstorm erupted—in reaction to the matter of yesterday’s blog post here, and that video in particular.

Lin-Manuel Miranda has tweeted:
You’re going straight to hell,
@realDonaldTrump
No long lines for you.
Someone will say, “Right this way, sir.”
They’ll clear a path.

But of course it is not but one man. It is not even “but one party,” thought inevitably the backlash against San Juan’s mayor gives rise to thoughts as these:
​

To the Degenerate Party


​Now is the time, if any, that this party
Of men that call themselves Republican
Ought to acknowledge, even to a man,
Even with the acknowledgement so tardy,

That they have proven themselves woefully
Inadequate, not just in governance,
But in fulfillment even at a glance
Of basic tenets of humanity.

How woefully they’ve failed, as citizens
Certainly but as individuals each
More greatly fallen short potential’s reach,
Torturing the last shred of innocence.

Ye devils! Ye are devils yet are men,
And so resemble me: if ye repent
Would it change tenor of the government?
And rehabilitate your conscience then?

Lord, I may not presume to judge; however,
Thee I beseech, if humankind must perish,
Let be uprooted this penchant nightmarish
Whereby hearts kill compassion to be clever.

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