The #MikePounce in the Mirror

by Hokis, senior editor, Twitter @hokispoetry

Before we
We dive into the joke
laugh ‘til we throw up
forget we are actually quite sick with
the common form of a frontal-lobe eating
cilia'd bacterium: Satirical dissonance,

note the symptoms,
Mistaking misspeaking to please.
Forgetting the bloodletting to ease.
Denial of our vile collective disease.

remember:
   Each giggle
   lines the pocket,
   emboldens the prophet
   whom first made us ill, yet
   we #DVReachnight.

inspiration for this poem in a poem, the September 13th trending hashtag #MikePounce, the memory of listening to Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast “The Satire Paradox,” while sitting in that super noisy, parallel to the engine, seat of a plane, and Dana Milbank’s opinion piece in the Washington Post, “Trump is a racist. Democrats should stop calling him one,” September 13, 2019.