Welcome to Poetic Licence – a weekly poetry forum, hosted by us, featuring words by local poets. This week? Activist Peter Marcus.
TRUMP
Trump is no joker
He deals
on a stack
of aces of spades,
to dig us
into a hole,
a grave prospect,
to attack us
with clubs,
dazzle us
with diamonds,
a heartlessness
unprecedented
for a presidential
king maker.
No longer
a game of thrones.
A stacked deck
held by a shark,
cruzing to victory
in a titanic fight
to gamble away,
on the ship of state
for a house of cards.
Peter Marcus was born in Toronto and moved to Vancouver in 1966. He worked in a hospital for 30 years, first as a cleaner and later as a transport attendant before retiring in 2002. He remains a union and political activist, and his poetry is part of a collection under the title "A Small Lamp" which he intends to get published.
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