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. . . of sonnet xlviii<\/em> in Your Obituary Is Waiting<\/a><\/em> . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   <\/em> xlviii<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
    America\u2019s top shitholer goes\n    whole hog at the public trough,\n    and never mind the rest of us,\n    because that is the hog\u2019s nature.\n    A silly grin when he licks his lips,\n    a scowl like a lout\u2019s mustache\u2014\n    the toadstool dick, the hellish\n    grunts, the squeals, the bogus\n    outrage of the ring, all are brazen\n    matches for his silly pompadour.\n    We crowned him circus king,\n    our technicolor conman\u2014\n    we shamed ourselves\n    enabling such a shameless thing.  <\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
‘We crowned him circus king \/ our technicolor conman’<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Nasty<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Angry<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dopey<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
of a sonnet that appeared in ‘Your Obituary Is Waiting,’s . . . Here it is, with apologies to circus folks. And here he is … nasty, angry, and dopey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,20,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-42036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-media","10":"category-news","11":"category-political-culture","12":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/MR-ANGRY-at-the-debate.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aW0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42079,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42036\/revisions\/42079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}