In God We Trusted

Joseph B. Raimond

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9783753427874
• eBook ISBN: 9783754310106
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

As the Trump era in America finally wanes, this sixty page book of poetry is a creative expat coming to terms with the racism, sexism and Trumpism of his country of birth. As usual, not recommended for republicans, nationalists, or probably anyone who voted for Trump.

#1

We the people,

Nod our patriotic heads

As we sit at the pews of church

Rows and rows of god fearing

Flag waving republican patriot lemmings

Listening to the sermons of the pastors

Through our brown paper bags

That we can’t think

Our way out of

And only because

Mr. Pastor is from this church

Well, it must be moral

With god’s own stamp of approval

To fear and loathe my fellow man

If only because he looks different

Thinks different

Or

God forbid

Doesn’t believe in a god,

Or my god

Then we go home

Morally cleansed

With a clean slate

Ready to go back to our immoral ways

To hell with the immigrants

The poor, the lonely, the sick

Why should my tax dollars

Pay for a bunch of lazy

Deadbeats and free-loaders

After I fuck you

In a motel,

Want to drive with me

To church on Sunday?

Political Poem For
Brian Ladd

How could you?

Join the masses

Of brainless stupid hate mongers

As they swim

To their moral deaths

In their swamp of stinking

Dying bigots

Pulling each other down

And drowning

In the ugly muck

Of uneducated bigotry

You’ve been so busy

Turning a blind eye

You must be senselessly

Dizzy by now

Spinning round and round

Your pale,

White male

Palms must be sore and red

From all the redneck

High-fiving

You’ve been so busy doing lately

With all your buddy bros!

If you have to have a dumb

Ugly and heartless

-ism

To define what you have become

Well, go ahead and choose

There are enough of them flying around

In the wake of your disaster

To choose from

It would have been so easy

For me,

To just rant and rave

Insult you,

Like I have grown tired

Of doing with so many others

In the wake of your disaster

When the word liberal

Is spat like

Any other four letter word

When pity and empathy

Are considered emotions

Of the weak

And hate is considered cool

But the fact is,

I admired you once

I collected your art,

Honestly listened to what you

As an artist had to say

So instead of hate, and anger,

Emotions I’ll let you go ahead and keep,

I just feel honest

Disappointment

And by the way,

I threw out all your albums

American Idol

Jump out, jump in

Jump into the mouth

Of the hungry monster

Economic livestock that you are

Let yourself be

Led to the intellectual slaughter

Sold for stupid

At pennies per pound

And while you are being devoured

Supersized that you are

By the never satiated

Sold on that new car

Don’t forget to buy that new

Limited edition dash

With mint aroma

Only while supplies last!

Pick up ...

Table of contents

• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• In God We Trusted
• The Human Spectrum
• The American Fool
• I Will Never Be A Marlboro Man
• Breasts And Ass Blood
• Equality
• For Drumpf
• Let Me Go
• The American Train
• Modern Fascism
• Angel Stew
• November 9th, 2016
• American Mourn
• Don’t Need Rope
• To The Dogs
• -ism
• The City
• An American Recipe
• 9/11
• Cultural Refugee
• #1
• Political Poem For Brian Ladd
• American Idol
• How Dared You?
• Red, White and Blue
• Inferiorists
• Burn
• Old Joe
• Fascism, American Style
• Make America Again
• The Fuckshits
• Cheeto
• A Song For America
• Copyright