Roscoe Lane
Roscoe Lane
Feb 24, 2017

Trumpery and Co....

Fake news wins the day I fear,
our media call it all post truth.
Nuttal finds then wipes a tear,
another creation of his youth.

Blair arrives to call it foul,
heals himself with golden thread.
Boris commits to timely scowl,
both will soon be breaking bread.

If they can argue until May,
Euro laws can call brits to duel.
Judge’s effrontery can save the day,
smith dot co left playing the fool.

Democracy becomes the only loser,
as Trump’s message begins to bite.
Putin’s got his Whitehouse bruiser,
Russian agents sleep well tonight.

And so our planet keeps on turning,
we gobble up lies like desert dust.
Grateful that no books are burning,
as we men of steel like factories rust.

Is there an end game, they should know,
elitism always seems to have a plan.
As our will melts like flakes of snow,
establishment is safe in the weakness of
man.

But worse we have the lords sleepers,
retirement home for our elder politician.
Pretending to be our gate keepers,
old farts topping up their sole invention.

I’m searching for reason but my minds
just hit the skids,
along with my chin and my trust.
I’m viewing this planet through extremely
heavy lids,
while hand in hand they go to admire,
Churchill’s bust.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: Political misinformation winning the day I fear....

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Editing - rough draft

About the Author

Region, Country: Scotland, Ayrshire land of Burns.., GBR

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Comments

Roscoe Lane

Good to hear your wise words again, smoothed out the last three stanzas . Hope this make for a better ending. Regards Roscoe.

Roscoe Lane

Sorry indie smoothed out the last three stanzas, but the old farts stays as I believe that's exactly what they are. Love Roscoe...

themoonman

I like your poem and agree with
eph and indie, struggled to catch
thy rhythm in the final stanza's.

The news has become a joke. I
remember my Dad watching it
every day and they actually reported
the news, now it is either extremely
biased or flat out not true. They
don't even check their sources anymore.

Thanks man, always good to read one
of your writes.

Richard

Roscoe Lane

Thank you Richard, took your comments and the two above onboard and had a bit of a rewrite. Thank you again. Regards Roscoe...