@poetofnow.bsky.social
Un
Unnorms: liars lying about lies
Unjustice: fedthugs in patriotic disguise
Unprecedented: crowding in at the trough
Unheroic: self-entitled secret police going off
Unbalanced: all-caps rant rage screech
Unreal: groceries out of reach
UnAmerican
Unnorms: liars lying about lies
Unjustice: fedthugs in patriotic disguise
Unprecedented: crowding in at the trough
Unheroic: self-entitled secret police going off
Unbalanced: all-caps rant rage screech
Unreal: groceries out of reach
UnAmerican
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Un
Unnorms: liars lying about lies
Unjustice: fedthugs in patriotic disguise
Unprecedented: crowding in at the trough
Unheroic: self-entitled secret police going off
Unbalanced: all-caps rant rage screech
Unreal: groceries out of reach
UnAmerican
Unnorms: liars lying about lies
Unjustice: fedthugs in patriotic disguise
Unprecedented: crowding in at the trough
Unheroic: self-entitled secret police going off
Unbalanced: all-caps rant rage screech
Unreal: groceries out of reach
UnAmerican
Unhinged. Unprecedented. Unbelievable.
Taboo-defying vengeance vigilantes—sans consequences
Just raids, parades, walls, riot fences
Accommodating pedophiles
Better angels so very out of style
Left to presser babbling
Dementia’s banter baffling
And all the king’s horses and all the king’s...
Taboo-defying vengeance vigilantes—sans consequences
Just raids, parades, walls, riot fences
Accommodating pedophiles
Better angels so very out of style
Left to presser babbling
Dementia’s banter baffling
And all the king’s horses and all the king’s...
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Unhinged. Unprecedented. Unbelievable.
Taboo-defying vengeance vigilantes—sans consequences
Just raids, parades, walls, riot fences
Accommodating pedophiles
Better angels so very out of style
Left to presser babbling
Dementia’s banter baffling
And all the king’s horses and all the king’s...
Taboo-defying vengeance vigilantes—sans consequences
Just raids, parades, walls, riot fences
Accommodating pedophiles
Better angels so very out of style
Left to presser babbling
Dementia’s banter baffling
And all the king’s horses and all the king’s...
Raw Real
Treacherous truth decoded
Vicious vanity locked and loaded
Who is American
Arguing with reality
Fatalities inflicting harm, pain, fear
Mob boss ethics very clear
Social programs sold off for parts
Lives stalled before they can start
#tyrannystrong
Rubber Soul days lost, way long gone
Treacherous truth decoded
Vicious vanity locked and loaded
Who is American
Arguing with reality
Fatalities inflicting harm, pain, fear
Mob boss ethics very clear
Social programs sold off for parts
Lives stalled before they can start
#tyrannystrong
Rubber Soul days lost, way long gone
November 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Raw Real
Treacherous truth decoded
Vicious vanity locked and loaded
Who is American
Arguing with reality
Fatalities inflicting harm, pain, fear
Mob boss ethics very clear
Social programs sold off for parts
Lives stalled before they can start
#tyrannystrong
Rubber Soul days lost, way long gone
Treacherous truth decoded
Vicious vanity locked and loaded
Who is American
Arguing with reality
Fatalities inflicting harm, pain, fear
Mob boss ethics very clear
Social programs sold off for parts
Lives stalled before they can start
#tyrannystrong
Rubber Soul days lost, way long gone
Needing More Than a Moment
Losing track of once upon a time
Asking for righteous rigor of a kind
Asking when will these forevers pass
How to last
Hypocrisy as heroic
Blasphemy as stoic
Grifting as quixotic
Self-dealing as patriotic
Shattering carousels whirling by
Losing track of once upon a time
Asking for righteous rigor of a kind
Asking when will these forevers pass
How to last
Hypocrisy as heroic
Blasphemy as stoic
Grifting as quixotic
Self-dealing as patriotic
Shattering carousels whirling by
November 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Needing More Than a Moment
Losing track of once upon a time
Asking for righteous rigor of a kind
Asking when will these forevers pass
How to last
Hypocrisy as heroic
Blasphemy as stoic
Grifting as quixotic
Self-dealing as patriotic
Shattering carousels whirling by
Losing track of once upon a time
Asking for righteous rigor of a kind
Asking when will these forevers pass
How to last
Hypocrisy as heroic
Blasphemy as stoic
Grifting as quixotic
Self-dealing as patriotic
Shattering carousels whirling by
Data Coup
Executive orders boggling the zone
Pardoning J6 felons—casting the first stone
DEI under jackboots
Nazi salutes
Pharisee saboteurs pushing
demonic DOGE nationalism
In a Thomas Paine's time the thing
With traitors' necks snapping
In a dead-dop swing
Stand up, or stand back
Executive orders boggling the zone
Pardoning J6 felons—casting the first stone
DEI under jackboots
Nazi salutes
Pharisee saboteurs pushing
demonic DOGE nationalism
In a Thomas Paine's time the thing
With traitors' necks snapping
In a dead-dop swing
Stand up, or stand back
February 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Data Coup
Executive orders boggling the zone
Pardoning J6 felons—casting the first stone
DEI under jackboots
Nazi salutes
Pharisee saboteurs pushing
demonic DOGE nationalism
In a Thomas Paine's time the thing
With traitors' necks snapping
In a dead-dop swing
Stand up, or stand back
Executive orders boggling the zone
Pardoning J6 felons—casting the first stone
DEI under jackboots
Nazi salutes
Pharisee saboteurs pushing
demonic DOGE nationalism
In a Thomas Paine's time the thing
With traitors' necks snapping
In a dead-dop swing
Stand up, or stand back
Unbowed
Truth traitors continuously smearing
questioning narratives
That fear—these imperatives
No caring, sharing
Fascist fits, predatory, the rehearsed worse
WhyNot’s rot curse
Fake statistics, false polling
Pretty lies curating
middle-class doomscrolling
Yet another day ending with why(?)
Truth traitors continuously smearing
questioning narratives
That fear—these imperatives
No caring, sharing
Fascist fits, predatory, the rehearsed worse
WhyNot’s rot curse
Fake statistics, false polling
Pretty lies curating
middle-class doomscrolling
Yet another day ending with why(?)
February 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Unbowed
Truth traitors continuously smearing
questioning narratives
That fear—these imperatives
No caring, sharing
Fascist fits, predatory, the rehearsed worse
WhyNot’s rot curse
Fake statistics, false polling
Pretty lies curating
middle-class doomscrolling
Yet another day ending with why(?)
Truth traitors continuously smearing
questioning narratives
That fear—these imperatives
No caring, sharing
Fascist fits, predatory, the rehearsed worse
WhyNot’s rot curse
Fake statistics, false polling
Pretty lies curating
middle-class doomscrolling
Yet another day ending with why(?)
Your papers?
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
Where are your proper papers
Now!
You will come with us now—do not resist
MadDaddynista never
letting the truth get in the way
Capturing narratives
to control the distracted cultees
These scratches looking for their itches
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
Where are your proper papers
Now!
You will come with us now—do not resist
MadDaddynista never
letting the truth get in the way
Capturing narratives
to control the distracted cultees
These scratches looking for their itches
February 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Your papers?
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
Where are your proper papers
Now!
You will come with us now—do not resist
MadDaddynista never
letting the truth get in the way
Capturing narratives
to control the distracted cultees
These scratches looking for their itches
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
Where are your proper papers
Now!
You will come with us now—do not resist
MadDaddynista never
letting the truth get in the way
Capturing narratives
to control the distracted cultees
These scratches looking for their itches
Empire Effigy
Mad-Daddynista’s misdirection
swindling cultee lying eyes
That victimhood fatality
This political hairball reality
Predatory capitalism celebrated as the prize
While rotting out from the inside
Empire lies spreading their own demise
Balloon drop
Mad-Daddynista’s misdirection
swindling cultee lying eyes
That victimhood fatality
This political hairball reality
Predatory capitalism celebrated as the prize
While rotting out from the inside
Empire lies spreading their own demise
Balloon drop
February 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Empire Effigy
Mad-Daddynista’s misdirection
swindling cultee lying eyes
That victimhood fatality
This political hairball reality
Predatory capitalism celebrated as the prize
While rotting out from the inside
Empire lies spreading their own demise
Balloon drop
Mad-Daddynista’s misdirection
swindling cultee lying eyes
That victimhood fatality
This political hairball reality
Predatory capitalism celebrated as the prize
While rotting out from the inside
Empire lies spreading their own demise
Balloon drop
Guilted Age
Billionaires’ glut
Always, only a “So what…”
Unregretted greed, unfettered cult lust
In Mad-Daddynista they trust
Colonized esteem surrendering to
The next narcissistic narrative
Swindling reality into grifting imperatives
Never wrong about never being sorry
Pride as gilded glory
Billionaires’ glut
Always, only a “So what…”
Unregretted greed, unfettered cult lust
In Mad-Daddynista they trust
Colonized esteem surrendering to
The next narcissistic narrative
Swindling reality into grifting imperatives
Never wrong about never being sorry
Pride as gilded glory
February 1, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Guilted Age
Billionaires’ glut
Always, only a “So what…”
Unregretted greed, unfettered cult lust
In Mad-Daddynista they trust
Colonized esteem surrendering to
The next narcissistic narrative
Swindling reality into grifting imperatives
Never wrong about never being sorry
Pride as gilded glory
Billionaires’ glut
Always, only a “So what…”
Unregretted greed, unfettered cult lust
In Mad-Daddynista they trust
Colonized esteem surrendering to
The next narcissistic narrative
Swindling reality into grifting imperatives
Never wrong about never being sorry
Pride as gilded glory
Thugrot Fanboy
You shall not deny allegiance
Rights are never wrong
You are only swollen grievance
No mercy
No compassion
No ethic
Only self
Only grifting scams
UnAmerican
You shall not deny allegiance
Rights are never wrong
You are only swollen grievance
No mercy
No compassion
No ethic
Only self
Only grifting scams
UnAmerican
January 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Thugrot Fanboy
You shall not deny allegiance
Rights are never wrong
You are only swollen grievance
No mercy
No compassion
No ethic
Only self
Only grifting scams
UnAmerican
You shall not deny allegiance
Rights are never wrong
You are only swollen grievance
No mercy
No compassion
No ethic
Only self
Only grifting scams
UnAmerican
Empire Down
Empire slick decadence
Empire trick common sense
Smug, eager sycophants—malice as apathy
Boned, brooding, freaky-creepy Xish smears
Making the vagrant-metaphor foxganda rounds
A clarifying Voltaires nowhere to be found
Know or no
Empire slick decadence
Empire trick common sense
Smug, eager sycophants—malice as apathy
Boned, brooding, freaky-creepy Xish smears
Making the vagrant-metaphor foxganda rounds
A clarifying Voltaires nowhere to be found
Know or no
January 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Empire Down
Empire slick decadence
Empire trick common sense
Smug, eager sycophants—malice as apathy
Boned, brooding, freaky-creepy Xish smears
Making the vagrant-metaphor foxganda rounds
A clarifying Voltaires nowhere to be found
Know or no
Empire slick decadence
Empire trick common sense
Smug, eager sycophants—malice as apathy
Boned, brooding, freaky-creepy Xish smears
Making the vagrant-metaphor foxganda rounds
A clarifying Voltaires nowhere to be found
Know or no
An American Now
As suspicions are made clear
Fears flinching into tellings of stories
Signs of freedoms hesitating
into last glories
Felons portrayed as excellent fellows
Barking from a pagan strongman’s bellows
His poppycock boys smirk
grifting self-aggrandizing mirth
Allegiance as grievance
As suspicions are made clear
Fears flinching into tellings of stories
Signs of freedoms hesitating
into last glories
Felons portrayed as excellent fellows
Barking from a pagan strongman’s bellows
His poppycock boys smirk
grifting self-aggrandizing mirth
Allegiance as grievance
January 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
An American Now
As suspicions are made clear
Fears flinching into tellings of stories
Signs of freedoms hesitating
into last glories
Felons portrayed as excellent fellows
Barking from a pagan strongman’s bellows
His poppycock boys smirk
grifting self-aggrandizing mirth
Allegiance as grievance
As suspicions are made clear
Fears flinching into tellings of stories
Signs of freedoms hesitating
into last glories
Felons portrayed as excellent fellows
Barking from a pagan strongman’s bellows
His poppycock boys smirk
grifting self-aggrandizing mirth
Allegiance as grievance
Got Bot Rot
Submit, conform, genuflect to the authoritarian norm
It’s all those mongering ifs, ands, or buts
Told there is only futile defiance
Said there is only compliance
The Self-Righteous class owning the Useless class
Obey or else
There is no not known self
Submit, conform, genuflect to the authoritarian norm
It’s all those mongering ifs, ands, or buts
Told there is only futile defiance
Said there is only compliance
The Self-Righteous class owning the Useless class
Obey or else
There is no not known self
December 26, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Got Bot Rot
Submit, conform, genuflect to the authoritarian norm
It’s all those mongering ifs, ands, or buts
Told there is only futile defiance
Said there is only compliance
The Self-Righteous class owning the Useless class
Obey or else
There is no not known self
Submit, conform, genuflect to the authoritarian norm
It’s all those mongering ifs, ands, or buts
Told there is only futile defiance
Said there is only compliance
The Self-Righteous class owning the Useless class
Obey or else
There is no not known self
The House Is On Fire
Frustration, guilt, stress
The house is on fire
Another hot mess
The house is on fire
Bill-bros rot
What the blindsideds get, got
The base seen as marks
The house is on fire
Getting very, very dark
Gilding the swamp
Coupon-prosperity pomp
The house is on fire
Frustration, guilt, stress
The house is on fire
Another hot mess
The house is on fire
Bill-bros rot
What the blindsideds get, got
The base seen as marks
The house is on fire
Getting very, very dark
Gilding the swamp
Coupon-prosperity pomp
The house is on fire
December 21, 2024 at 5:44 PM
The House Is On Fire
Frustration, guilt, stress
The house is on fire
Another hot mess
The house is on fire
Bill-bros rot
What the blindsideds get, got
The base seen as marks
The house is on fire
Getting very, very dark
Gilding the swamp
Coupon-prosperity pomp
The house is on fire
Frustration, guilt, stress
The house is on fire
Another hot mess
The house is on fire
Bill-bros rot
What the blindsideds get, got
The base seen as marks
The house is on fire
Getting very, very dark
Gilding the swamp
Coupon-prosperity pomp
The house is on fire
That Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
It’s in the bag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Just keep waving the flag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
You put a million in
Get a billion out
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Hotcha!
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
It’s in the bag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Just keep waving the flag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
You put a million in
Get a billion out
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Hotcha!
December 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM
That Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
It’s in the bag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Just keep waving the flag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
You put a million in
Get a billion out
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Hotcha!
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
It’s in the bag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Just keep waving the flag
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
You put a million in
Get a billion out
Doin’ that Super Sycophant Swamp Rag
Hotcha!
NoNots
Nothing’s nowheres leaning in
Canceling thought as it begins
Looking at the back of the bus
Wondering if that will again will be us
NoNots wanting to burn it all down
NoNots bound to a faux-truth has not found
A NoNot pall
Making Alice small
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Nothing’s nowheres leaning in
Canceling thought as it begins
Looking at the back of the bus
Wondering if that will again will be us
NoNots wanting to burn it all down
NoNots bound to a faux-truth has not found
A NoNot pall
Making Alice small
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December 12, 2024 at 4:48 PM
NoNots
Nothing’s nowheres leaning in
Canceling thought as it begins
Looking at the back of the bus
Wondering if that will again will be us
NoNots wanting to burn it all down
NoNots bound to a faux-truth has not found
A NoNot pall
Making Alice small
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Nothing’s nowheres leaning in
Canceling thought as it begins
Looking at the back of the bus
Wondering if that will again will be us
NoNots wanting to burn it all down
NoNots bound to a faux-truth has not found
A NoNot pall
Making Alice small
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Nice Badguys
(excerpt)
Lusting to repeal 20th protections
That birthright bottomline back-then seeming
Blistering transparency so very demeaning
Oily ethics flipping off
where dreams once met
Taking the under on the
middle-age red-meat freakout bet
#AngryStrong
Going along
(excerpt)
Lusting to repeal 20th protections
That birthright bottomline back-then seeming
Blistering transparency so very demeaning
Oily ethics flipping off
where dreams once met
Taking the under on the
middle-age red-meat freakout bet
#AngryStrong
Going along
December 6, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Nice Badguys
(excerpt)
Lusting to repeal 20th protections
That birthright bottomline back-then seeming
Blistering transparency so very demeaning
Oily ethics flipping off
where dreams once met
Taking the under on the
middle-age red-meat freakout bet
#AngryStrong
Going along
(excerpt)
Lusting to repeal 20th protections
That birthright bottomline back-then seeming
Blistering transparency so very demeaning
Oily ethics flipping off
where dreams once met
Taking the under on the
middle-age red-meat freakout bet
#AngryStrong
Going along
Ands
(excerpt)
Snooty elitist superiority, always bolder
Eroding dignity of work, always cold shoulder
Cheering on hypnotic applause
Viral epithets seeding apathy’s cause
What to think
Staring down yet another brink
These malicious mutilations on freedom’s rights
(excerpt)
Snooty elitist superiority, always bolder
Eroding dignity of work, always cold shoulder
Cheering on hypnotic applause
Viral epithets seeding apathy’s cause
What to think
Staring down yet another brink
These malicious mutilations on freedom’s rights
November 30, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Ands
(excerpt)
Snooty elitist superiority, always bolder
Eroding dignity of work, always cold shoulder
Cheering on hypnotic applause
Viral epithets seeding apathy’s cause
What to think
Staring down yet another brink
These malicious mutilations on freedom’s rights
(excerpt)
Snooty elitist superiority, always bolder
Eroding dignity of work, always cold shoulder
Cheering on hypnotic applause
Viral epithets seeding apathy’s cause
What to think
Staring down yet another brink
These malicious mutilations on freedom’s rights
"That" available on Amazon
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DMSwanson
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November 23, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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Next
Your papers?
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
What! These papers are not in order!
Where are your proper papers
Now!
We must see your papers now!
You will now come with us—do not resist
Will there ever be a way to cope,
with this hunted hope
Scratches looking for itches
Your papers?
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
What! These papers are not in order!
Where are your proper papers
Now!
We must see your papers now!
You will now come with us—do not resist
Will there ever be a way to cope,
with this hunted hope
Scratches looking for itches
November 21, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Next
Your papers?
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
What! These papers are not in order!
Where are your proper papers
Now!
We must see your papers now!
You will now come with us—do not resist
Will there ever be a way to cope,
with this hunted hope
Scratches looking for itches
Your papers?
You must show us your papers
Now! Your papers, yes?
What! These papers are not in order!
Where are your proper papers
Now!
We must see your papers now!
You will now come with us—do not resist
Will there ever be a way to cope,
with this hunted hope
Scratches looking for itches
Waiting for Mussolini
(excerpt)
Seeing dark as light
Wrong as right
Do what you are told
Buy what you are sold
Do not say what you think
Do not admit the brink
Dear Grifter is always right,
the Others always wrong
#arrogantignorancestrong
Just go along
Amazon > "enter "DMSwanson"
(excerpt)
Seeing dark as light
Wrong as right
Do what you are told
Buy what you are sold
Do not say what you think
Do not admit the brink
Dear Grifter is always right,
the Others always wrong
#arrogantignorancestrong
Just go along
Amazon > "enter "DMSwanson"
November 20, 2024 at 1:37 PM
Waiting for Mussolini
(excerpt)
Seeing dark as light
Wrong as right
Do what you are told
Buy what you are sold
Do not say what you think
Do not admit the brink
Dear Grifter is always right,
the Others always wrong
#arrogantignorancestrong
Just go along
Amazon > "enter "DMSwanson"
(excerpt)
Seeing dark as light
Wrong as right
Do what you are told
Buy what you are sold
Do not say what you think
Do not admit the brink
Dear Grifter is always right,
the Others always wrong
#arrogantignorancestrong
Just go along
Amazon > "enter "DMSwanson"