I’ll be grateful for every kindness I’m shown
for every pelican plunging into the sea
every green wave that crashes over me
every breeze, every smile, every smell, every beach mile
It’s a miracle just to be,
so today I’ll try to do so,
happily

So, no, I will not read the newspaper today
I’ll listen to village dogs bark and cocks crow
and watch the sun rise over Mexico

A wandering mind, in this case lost,
burning to teach all who scoffed
at his bankrupt businesses,
his gold-plated wives, his profits bought
off unpaid bills and others’ lives
Yes, he will show them, he’ll show us all
He’ll destroy and destroy until we’re gone
Only fools to remain, still in thrall

No doubt he is inherently cruel
But now, as he begins to drool,
It gets worse, frail guardrails fall away
Will those who go to Guantanamo Bay
just be detained, or is it dawn of the day
when waterboarding returns to stay

He is a psychopathic train
screaming down the tracks,
a twisted brain on permanent attack
Truths are lies, lies are truth
He’s Mahatma Gandhi and Babe Ruth!
His words are like his morals, fast and loose
Good is bad and bad is good
How could they have looked at him,
and listened, and not understood

This man is so filled with hate
for every member of the human race
How did anyone ever believe
he would do anything but strive to achieve
the ultimate prize for a dead-eyed knave
The power to dominate and destroy
to upset and ruin, like a spoiled boy
treating the world like yesterday’s toys

When World War II was recent history
we looked back and wondered how
this ugly man with bad moustache
could make millions kill
and millions cow
Now we look to Washington
and see Hitler’s red-head, bastard son
with keys to power and a loaded gun