Unlikely Deplorable

Unlikely Deplorable

Damn I’m growing tired of deplorable

depressing my soul with a try to tamp

out the spark of light and hope and yet-

And yet, ain’t it something that deplorable

lights the fire to the straw, puts a spring in

our step and rushes us together - faces bright –

voices loud in righteous outrage - Standing together

without guise to smite the hatred deception, division

and oh the denial -Ah deplorable you unlikely champion –

I throw you in a basket over our shoulders and toss chunks

of you colored with the shimmering impenetrable dye of red,

white and shining blue… until those that would writhe

hatred around the flagpole – slither from their skins
dissolved.