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Trump had the stones to look up

and see himself, the chiseler, chiseled

by Gutzon Borglum's ghost

or at least Gutzon on a horse and under a sheet

lynchin "Injuns", the first antifa people,

while the band played on and on and on

that ugly f*cking spangled song

while Birth of A Nation

was projected against the faces of our fores

and I thought of Taliban and Buddhist statues

blown to smithereens, back to nothing, like

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