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Goodnight Tycoon

with apologies to Margaret Wise Brown

In a great green room there's a wacko tycoon,
with a picture of the White House over the loon,
a passel of aides who are pecking to please
on phones and PCs balanced on knees,
a bottle of bourbon with a shot,
a blond toupee, hair spray, a brush—
and there's the tycoon, mouthing his mush.

Goodnight to this louse with his hoped-for House.
Goodnight to his plot of fencing our lot
and ousting every migrant we've got.
Goodnight to election tactics that scare.
Goodnight xenophobes everywhere.

by Barbara Lydecker Crane
in volume 4 issue 2

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