The Second Coming 2.0 (after Yeats)

Trumps 2nd. term (The best lack all perspicacity, while the worst are full of passionate bullshit.

Poem “The Second Coming 2.0” © by John Munnelly (after Yeats)

Part 1:
The Second Coming 2.0 (after W.B. Yeats) 

Lying and lying in the widening mire   
The farter cannot smell the fart;
Shit piles up; the toilet stuffed;
More assholes loosed upon the world,
The money-sucking demon is released, and everywhere   
The preeminence of lawfulness is pwned;
The best lack all perspicacity, while the worst   
Are full of passionate bullshit.

The Second Coming 2.0 by © John Munnelly 2025

Part 2

Surely some election is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is afoot.   
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out   
When a vast image of a Horribilis Anus
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sand of the capital  
A shape with a burger body and the head of a congenital malformation,   
A gaze blank and idiotic as a monkey with a banana  
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it   
Fearful fellows fulfill their masters fever fantasies.   
The previous old man can now take his nap;   
After delivering a speech on messianic overreach.
We are vexed to nightmare by complicit hands,   
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,   
Slouches towards McDonalds to be fed?

©John Munnelly 2/26/25

Ah yeah, sure it’s great fun is this writing.

WB Yeats what a poet! What one should I rewrite next - arsehole pass by?