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Jon Swan

Jon Swan is a poet, translator, and journalist, who lived for forty years in the Berkshires and now lives in Maine. His website is jonswanpoems.com

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POEM: Presidential Pillow Talk, Barr on the Neighboring Pillow

Ratta-tat tat. Teargas attack. And that, Billy-boy, is that!
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Presidential Bible Quiz!

How much longer do I have to go on holding this book?
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POEM: The Quack behind the Counter

Follow up, as indicated With a shot glass full of Clorox
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POEM: White man in blue suit in White House

There is something truly Biblical about this fellow -- a Hoosier saint in-waiting,
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POEM: Badger-State Blues

I have this sense that what we took for granted for so long -- the way we lived, and moved, and had our being -- will be changed for all time
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POEM: Anchors Aweigh!

The flotilla of uplifted houses sets out in search of Nova Terra Firma.
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POEM: Of Toads & Men

“How in the world can these senators walk around here upright when they have no backbone?”
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POEM: Get Over It, Kids!

And think of it: if planet Earth is, in fact, warming faster than ever, as some say, what’s wrong with that?
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The Sandwich Board Man at the Corner of Bolsonaro and Fifth

and the heat underfoot is getting hotter, as if the street’s on fire, and nobody can put it out
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POEM: Mike & Matthew: Showdown at the Border

...if turned from meek-and-mild front to back, reveals himself to be the “whited sepulcher”...
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POEM: A Dog’s Life

A dash of doggerel about dystopia, dictators,  and an Airedale.
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POEM: Spinal Tap!

Spinal Tap! The Back Story of a Crippling Disease   When the article describing moral fibrosis, (including the protocol for diagnosis) appeared in the pages and under the aegis of the...
Arts & Entertainment

Poem: Conzoomerism, as the World Burns

The press is in on the consumer game, hustling glamor, bewitched by fame.
Arts & Entertainment

Poem: Dumb as a Rock

Allow me to suggest that you exhibit a collection of divots...
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POEM: SCOTUS AWOL

Everyone agreed it was a bad hair day… And the president chose to watch TV, high and dry and far from the fray...
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POEM: The King of Bedlam

The King of Bedlam is a portly tun whose three-legged stool he takes for a throne.
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