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Michael S. Luzzi
Author of the Trumpty Dumpty books
"The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States was a heart-stopping, life-altering moment, which has become a recurring nightmare."
In the introduction to a book I wrote in 2018, TRUMPTY DUMPTY INVADES MOTHER GOOSE, I wrote:
"In my mind, November 8, 2016 has joined the ranks of November 22, 1963, and September 11,2001 as a singular tragedy of epic proportions. I refer to this as The Dark American Triad. The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States was a heart-stopping, life-altering moment, which has become a recurring nightmare. It was an event that has threatened to tear the fabric of this country apart – thread by slender thread - until there is nothing left but a democracy in shreds: The UNTIED States of America. . .
This poem I wrote – as one of my coping mechanisms – was eerily prescient…
The Dark American Triad: JFK, 9/11, Trump
The last sound I heard when my head disappeared
into my pillow was a low agonizing sob… It was my own
I dreamed that I was dreaming about a nightmare
descending at great speed from a spec in the sky,
growing larger like a meteor but morphing
into a hideous mass with a thick tail whipping
and a lizard-like tongue flicking swiftly
with pointed tips and amber eyes,
eyes that laughed out loud as it stopped short
and hovered over me … silent for a long moment
before it spat out the deliberate dreadful question:
“How do you like your new room?”
I am so deep in the dream I drift far, far back,
toward the burning towers … It is September 11, 2001 …
and I can no longer stand the smoke that chokes me and soon I become air
born, flailing my arms which turn into wings, which float me safely down… I land
on the ground in Dealey Plaza… It is also November 22, 1963
and there’s the motorcade moving toward me, the presidential limo, but Elm Street
suddenly becomes Pennsylvania Avenue… It is also January 20, 2017
and the shots which echo are not only assassins’ bullets aimed at Kennedy
but also a 21-gun salute to Trump and it’s all happening at the same time,
it’s all the same place, and I can’t tell if the past has caught up to the present
or if this is the future where America has been co-opted while I slept?
But now I am awake… And my eyes are open!
©2017 Michael Luzzi
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