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Parts of this epic poem (The Iliad is the appropriate comparison) deal with Donald Trump, because his words and actions continue to play substantive parts in the American political and geopolitical processes, where those do not intersect. I leave you with the last passage I have penned, about Trump and his outright embrace of the QAnon conspiracy theory, and its most overt followers.

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After winking at QAnon for years,

The Donald is overtly embracing

Their baseless conspiracy theory,

No matter that the number of frightening

Real-world events linked to it increases.

On Tuesday, on his Truth Social platform,

The Republican former president

Reposted a photograph of himself

Wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid

With "The Storm is Coming." To QAnon,

The "storm" refers to final victory

For Trump, who will supposedly regain

The White House. His opponents will be tried,

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My name is William Perkins Homans the third, but probably more people know me as the bluesman (and artist) Watermelon Slim.

I've been in the fight against war, fascism, injustice and inhumanity for 47 years. I was at MayDay, 1971, (more...)
 

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