The Party has fallen beyond the pale of course
Cheering on legitimate political discourse
Beating defenders with steel pipes
Bashing skulls of Capitol police
Stabbing their chests with flag pole spears
Screaming curses and threats
Of violence and death
Defecating on walls and monuments
Building scaffolds to hang vice-presidents
Seeking majority leaders to rape and kill
Stealing podiums and laptops
And making Giuliani war in the streets
Expecting their president to join the fray
But he watched and waited
Gleeful and pleased
That his party sees insurrection
As legitimate political discourse
Of fascists and autocrats
Bullies and cheats
Day after day for months
The strength of such
Political discourse
Which of course is not discourse at all
grows stronger
The longer we wait
To stop it.
annarino writes 