What They Don't Teach You At Kindergarten Poem by michael spangenberg

All of a sudden, literally overnight
We find ourselves In the aftermath
Of 11/8 Election Day, landed in a
Megalomaniac-depressive post-truth
Post-decency weary landscape
11/8 has become our new 9/11
Dark is the night indeed.

As if our children were not swimming
Between enough predatory sharks
The global village's transgressed
Into an explosive ammunition place
Was South Carolina not the universe
Of profitable slavery exchange
Inundated with the bitter-sweet
Deal flow of money, blood & tears.

Almost overnight, the Grand Old Party
Became the most dangerous organization
World-wide, says MIT Noam Chomsky
An old man, but not exactly stupid.

All we needed to know in life
We learned in Kindergarten
What are the kinds of things
We learned as children
Especially in kindergarten?

1. Tell the truth.
2. Share everything.
3. Clean up your own mess.
4. Don't do evil.
5. Don't hit people.
6. Play fair.
7. Say you're sorry
(when you hurt somebody) .

Simple decency, why is it
Resonating to small children
Yet beyond comprehension
For Godless US presidents.

What we didn't learn
At Kindergarten is the fact
that power corrupts, that
Indecent people have ferocious
Appetite for power, it's never enough
Having the presidential mandate's
Quadrupled the tumorous cancer cells
In their un-compromised corruptive minds.

May God bless you, God keep you
Do what US presidents are allowed to do
Reach out in hate to your fellow citizens.

Footnote - Credit where credit's due: Episcopal
News Service, post election message from the
presiding bishop, November 9,2016.