Fred D. White
Great Again
Imagine being great again in a country that is going to be great again,
decked out white, red, white, blue, where if your tattoos are fearsome
enough and your bravura potent enough to make your lack of knowledge
look like a crowning achievement, you can lead whatever agency you have
spent the last several years knowing virtually nothing about and scheming
about how to destroy. To be great again, speak in fragments or non-
sequiturs while also managing to belittle anyone who would challenge your
false front. To be great again, use your middle finger to get your
point across, and if that doesn't work. you have the National Guard to deploy,
and if your bravado ever gets ridiculed for the sideshow/horrorshow it is,
well, you still have the Codes to help you finish the job.
Bio
Fred White's poems have appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Rattle, Spry, etc. He lives in Folsom, CA.