The thieving, venomous old merchant wrenched the torch from Lady Liberty’s grasp, clenched her breast in gnashing teeth, and set alight our Constitution, then our Bill of Rights.
Diane G. Martin, The Blazing World
An incisive critique of the tyrannous reign of Trump in the USA! His description as a “thieving, venomous old merchant” strikes me as particularly apt, while the aggressiveness of establishmental patriarchy is captured by an effective combination of enjambment and cacophony, such as the growling and harsh consonances of ‘r’ and ‘ch’. The gradual disintegration of the rhymes conveys the ultimately self-destructive nature of intolerant society in a clever way. I also admire the creative perversion of maternal breastfeeding, with the breast “clenched ... in gnashing teeth”. A depressing poem, but rightly so! ;^(
I rate this quote 8/10 impaled unicorns.















