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Tammy Duckworth lost both her legs …

Matthew B.
Resistance Poetry
Published in
2 min readJan 21, 2018

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Tammy Duckworth lost both her legs

when a helicopter crashed in Iraq

and you’d think she’d get a small

modicum of respect and a kind of

gentle understanding perhaps

you know

all things considered

and such,

but no …

Facebook is just alive with Trump folks

all on her case cos she had the sheer,

brazen audacity to challenge the Orange

One by pointing out that this NY partying,

tennis playing, golf swinging little rich

boy avoided Vietnam with the very charmed

& lucky help of a fancy-ass doctor who

signed in all the right places,

& Tammy Duckworth

is somehow an upstart,

who should keep quiet

& anyway what about that

Hussein Barrack sure as heck

what did he do huh?

as if this was at all

relevant,

& no he didn’t flee Canada like those

longhairs did,

& who knows what he really said to

that weeping young widow,

& hell …

what about Clinton!

The news as absorbed and thrown back

to us all by Trump folks on Facebook

leaves me feeling a might soiled,

rubbed raw,

bitter …

in a realization of

who else is out there,

how they feel,

what they think,

Tammy Duckworth lost both her legs …

& she’s the bad one here!

Son of a bitch …

Trump folks really, really,

can get you down,

they truly can.

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Matthew B.
Resistance Poetry

More Trump stuff going back to that day in November can be found @ martgenova.blogspot.com, Poems for Trump.