Mercy as
25 January 2025
LINDSAY F BOND
Mercy rhyme on scene of rising doubt.
If by mouthing threat or broaching
one trumpet sounds aught but ask,
mayhem murks ensued discourse
thus much trumped of warrants bask,
If a bishop advocates mercy
as did Mariann Edgar Budde
in earnest provocation plead
pressed a polite humane thud(-dei),
If Sewell somewhat is political
as was sought in god-well dressage,
gesturing grateful incantation
invocating divinely ‘free’ message,
If a court transparent at Seattle
attests citizenships’, birth to last,
gifts families of said immigrants,
affirmed amendment rite of clasp,
If mouthed timbred tone on Canada
rolls lumbered barrel-like cask
on Pleistocene north-east settlement
sixteen decades confederate past,
If glaring’s to infer authority
and smirk conceals to mask
by metonymic headings still
how long should eschews last,
If bask is put so prevalent
yet folk kind of follow feigns,
those folk ought ask themselves who bask
with presumer’s wield on reins.
["I don't hate the president,
and I pray for him," Budde said]
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