With the virus raging anew, with America now the statistical sinkhole of the western world, with dozens of Secret Service people being forced into quarantine, with 125,000 dead and worse to come, we’re clearly starved for national leadership. But at least we have a president who’s gifted at crafting free-verse poetry!

Nobody does poetry better than him. Nobody in human history – nobody has ever seen anything like it, it’s so incredible – has ever before combined the traditional Haiku with the idiosyncratic whimsy of e e cummings.

For instance, he gave a poetry reading earlier this week inside a mask-free Arizona megachurch (seriously, this is verbatim from the rally). Behold America’s Bard, as he flexes his leadership in this unparalleled time of crisis:

Right next to San Diego

is a wonderful town

in Mexico.

You know the town;

I won’t mention the name.

But they’re heavily infected with

COVID.

Do you ever notice,

I said the other night,

did anybody see my speech

the other night

on Saturday night?

But I said the other night,

“There’s never been

anything

where they have so many

names.”

I could give you 19 or 20 names

for that,

right?

It’s got all different names.

“Wuhan.”

“Wuhan” was catching on.

“Coronavirus,” right?

“Kung-flu,” yeah.

“Kung-flu.”

“COVID.”

“COVID-19.”

“COVID.”

I said, “what’s the ’19’?”

“COVID-19.”

Some people can’t explain

what the “19” –

give me the –

“COVID-19.”

I said, “That’s an odd

name.”

I could give you

many, many names.

Some people call it the

“Chinese flu.”

The “China flu.”

Right?

They call it the “China,”

as opposed to “Chi-“,

the “China.”

I’ve never seen anything like it.

Such artistry like nobody has ever seen! But perhaps e e cummings sums him up best:

the little
lame balloonman

whistles          far          and wee