image and inspiration: CNN’s “A Full House at the Funeral of El Paso Shooting Victim Margie Reckard (((while Trump is experiencing a #EmptySeatMAGATour)))

by Hokis, senior editor

look away from empty seats.
resist the ego's temptation to dance
to the lip-synced song of the shadowed performer.

your bitter focus is nothing
but the sour lemon
in his water. 

you believe it
productive, when in truth 
it cures his laryngitis.