it's vital

it's vital

Trump and Taylor 

in a tree

S-i-n-g-i-n-g

it is a disturbed musical influence

love is a scratch that makes

a record play smoothly

despite its defect

but the song is skipping

love is a draining campaign

of lies and derelict lyrics

the cats are crawling

around the feet of democracy

but the purring has stopped

the claws are extended

someone is chopping at the tree

God's hand is extended

leaves are September's change

in October mist

the vision is clouded

we need to help write new songs

maybe they can harmonize

in another life

maybe families can find concurrent grooves

without smashing the vinyl purpose of peace

respect is a repetitious note

as the record ends

maybe we can play it again

and all dance to it

together.

erin-cilberto

9/17/24

Reviews

[Relic]

I don't want to get emotionally involved in it all anymore. It's too much to handle. Our economy sucks, the border is going to be a problem in years to come in ways we never anticipated, and so on....

I don't like either candidate. I'd rather listen to James and try to get past all the crap coming.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

so many share your sentiments, Relic,
j.

[light and ashes]

What we need is the rejuvenation of old morals,
actual morals,
things like respect, dignity, humility, and kindness,
overall common decency,
which is no longer common, but it used to be.

It is both rare and endangered.

When you lift up the devil, or yourself, more than you lift up God. You are sure to fall.

It may not be immediate. It may even be a long lived success, but you are sure to fall, and fall hard....
and falling are we...
as a country,
as a planet.

Amen. (it just felt right).

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, I would say so, light,
j.

[Ken Simm.]

Without initially speaking to the excellence of the poem itself I think its important that we in the democracies start voting for polices and ideas not personalities.
Why do we think that if we call the other names we have won the argument? This is not politics. Or perhaps it is twenty first century.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

It seems to be the new politics.

[Ken Simm.]

That is the trouble. It is not politics it is cult worship.

[Vol]

Erin,
All of Western Civilization has fallen to new lows in every sense of the word. We have become a Philistine culture. While I was growing up, everyone knew about Frost, Sandburg, cummings, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Bradbury, Picasso, Dali, Rothko, Nietzsche, Sartre, Leonard Bernstein, or Stravinski, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and plenty of others who were ALIVE, and were given the proper attention and study... WHO is out there today making a cultural impact? Who is writing about the human condition in the twenty-first century? It is no wonder our politicians are evil buffoons, they are exactly what we deserve, they are exactly what we want.
(I SO hope we're wrong, and there is a way back!)
Vol

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I agree...I am hopeful as well.
j.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Bob DeNiro says the world will end if Trump EVER gets elected. Elon Musk informed Bob that Trump had already been president and didn't do a very bad job at promoting peace in the middle east as well as securing our borders here at home. I wouldn't vote for Kamala as a kindergarten teacher even though she speaks like one with her sing-song condescension. She said in an ad that there were no American troops in combat zones anywhere in the world. A group of Marines posted a clip of themselves in a combat zone asking where she thought they were. I wouldn't trust her as a Brownie Scout leader, let alone, Commander in Chief. I'm not overly fond of "The Donald" but I'll take him over Kamala 100 times out of a hundred.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

NO one is able to trust any of our politicians these days....when people are willing to vote for someone like the Donald...the world has gone to hell in a handbag.
But I know many feel as you do as well.
I just wish the political climate wasn't so volatile...and campaigns could just get back to dealing with issues and not name calling.
j.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

Kamala also said she wanted taxpayers to fund sex change operations for illegal aliens currently incarcerated in our prison system. These operations can run upward of $60,000 each, but she wants the taxpayers to provide non-citizen criminals with that generous gift. I couldn't make this stuff up. It's on video though. She has zero idea how economics work. She wants to charge stores for "price gouging" when the inflation caused by her administration "Bidenflation" is what drove prices up to begin with. It takes no genius to figure out that if you raise the fuel prices that trucks need to deliver supplies the price of acquiring those supplies goes up too. Biden shut down the XL pipeline his very first day in office that would have brought in around 840,000 barrels of crude to American refineries DAILY. And he chose to subsidize that loss by buying Russian oil. Again, you can't make this stuff up. The United States never depended very much on Russian oil at all until Biden. The democratic party as represented by Biden and Kamala is a failure for America and it has been ruining the lives of its poorest as well as straining the lives of the middle class. I know this much, my gas was 1.89 a gallon the last time Trump was president. And my families financial welfare was not as strained. The democrat party of today is not the party of Kennedy. If you can't believe that then we must note that Robert Kennedy Jr. has thrown his support behind Trump too. Not crazy about the choices proffered but I will be voting for Donald Trump in November.

[Betty Hermelee]

A great way to portray the political scene! Trump and Taylor should stay in that tree, perhaps even making nice! I love the skipping vinyl record ( like Trumps hideous speech…… if only we could listen to Frank Sinatra! Lucky you in Australia!
Warmly B

[jacob erin-cilberto]

ha ha, thanks, Betty....

I might move to Australia if a certain person wins...
j.

[Betty Hermelee]

we’re trying to decide!

[andrew mitchell]

So much rides on this election and will play out on the World stage which is fragile already.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, andrew,
true.
j.

[Arundass TP]

Interesting imagination. Loved this poem

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Arundass,
j.

[Patricia Wedel]

Somehow we Lost Control… the Record has scratches… compromising a Clear Vision. Our 💜 Heart is Broken. Sadly, Pat

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Yes, lots of hearts are broken.
j.

[John the Baptist]

Mr. Trump and Ms Swift singing a duet in a tree is a difficult image to summon, but as unity and harmony are your themes here, I suppose it is possible. You have an abundance of images in this one, showing both the difficulty we face and the necessity of overcoming it. The cats really are crawling around the feet of democracy, and we do need to write new songs. Maybe we can. Still, my uncertainty is not yet abated.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I have so much uncertainty...I can't stand it.
Thank you, John,
j.