In the meantime
Somehow
We’ll slog through
This epoch of madness

Unprecedented
Unpresidented

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** Oval Office Occupancy

& thus
To turn the page
& move past this… era?
Into whatever comes next
Will likely require
A gigantic civic crowbar
&/or millions
Of regular-sized ones
& much elbow grease
& sweat
& prying

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…

Those this desperate
Will cling
To that which they view
As keeping them free
With every ounce
Of desperation
& clinging
They have in them