I saw the devil run for president Isn't it funny How hate is always newsworthy It keeps us hating It keeps us divided
I saw the devil run for president Like some kind of celebrity A reality tv star Who don't know who the devil is He was runnin' on hate He was runnin' Oh that villainous devil That heel So many americans waiting to vote for him His backward revolution So many americans would vote for the apocalypse As long as it was white
I saw the devil run for president Like we had a choice His faux liberal opponent Rehearses an acceptance speech Grinning like the cat that ate the canary Knowing even dictatorships have elections They just tell you what the choices are
I saw the devil run for president & I ran
Images On A Screen
This is what war does Everything flattened, gone, destroyed No need to ask why It's business Nothing personal Profits before prophets This is how the World ends That part of the World Irradiated bombs killing the future This is what war does
Confessions Of An american Outlaw #473 (Transmissions For Amiri Baraka #7)
Listening to some Poets lately I'm thinkin' these are dangerous times The man was always up to something You would always tell it like it is People would call your Poetry angry You would forever be known as that angry guy I never saw it
They tried to take away your life's work They made it a holy war They could not take a thing from you
I was living in Philly Some stuffy jewish law student mother fucker Would get in my face every day Because he knew you were my favorite Poet Telling me how they were going to run you out of your Poet Laureate roll He wanted to crush you, I could see the hate in his eyes He didn't even know you, he knew what he was told He probably never even read the Poem When it was all over, & you were out, he joked about it Said when he was elected governor He would appoint me as Poet Laureate I told him Don't you ever do that
I feel like the World misses you But you are still here in spirit You were the one that taught me It was okay to speak out In fact it is necessary
Bio: Michael D. Grover is a Florida born Poet that currently resides in The Old West End of Toledo, Ohio trying to get as far north as he can. Michael has been publishing and performing Poetry for nearly twenty years and has been published all over the World. Michael published many of the best underground Poets in the country while he ran Covert Press. He has published over a dozen chapbooks over the years. His first collection of Poems will soon be available from Citizens For Decent Literature Press. Michael is the current Head Poetry Editor at Red Fez. In 2015 Michael published his first novel Lockewood/The Wolves Of Lockewood. He is soon to publish his next novel Heavy Metal.