Donald Trump – An Elegy and Ode

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The real mess America is,

And the great white hope as he is called,

Bigger than Moby Dick,

And a donkeying captain Ahab,

With harpoons in his palms, chasing him,

In an ocean, called the Great America,

Where all sorts of bioluminescent creatures live,

Divided by their faith of Moby Dick,

Or the absence. The giant whale it takes,

To run a country that reads short

140 character messages, those tweets,

Forgetting that this was once Lincoln’s Land,

Of the great Gettysburg address,

The beauty of words that gets lost,

In a bird’s tongue. How sorrowful,

That it only takes 140 odd characters,

To rule or divide, and sometimes both,

The “tweets” war between

An albino whale and Captain Ahab,

And Ahab’s leg, one November day,

Moby Dick took a giant bite of.

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Published by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems. View all posts by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)