image from: Plewig G., Melnik B., Chen W. (2019) Acne Clinic: Morphogenesis. In: Plewig and Kligman´s Acne and Rosacea. Springer, Cham.

by Hokis, senior editor

Trump is but an Occupant, the White
Head of State, on top of a nation's 
deeply rooted zit.

It's words, oozing pus of distraction, we
turn our head, to shadow shame,
hiding the disease of our skin;

The acme 
of our democracy's 
defamatory, 
leaching
acne.

inspired by MSNBC segment with Eddie Glaude, “Blaming Trump is too easy: This is us.” Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University, speaks to American culture, racism in 2019 and how President Trump is the “manifestation of the ugliness that’s inside us.”