He Eat Dolce Vita (Revised ’26)

He fly da vulture

He do stranger danger

He swamp da monster

He got winner envy

He lose by plenty

(Back in Twenty-Twenty
a geriatric beauty contest for
the filthy wealthy rich only)

From one son

Of a carpetbagger

To another son

Of a used car salesman

He cry loudly “Mummy!”

Now he ‘Don da Teflon’

Dat King of Redaction
◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️◾️

He Crypto A Go-Go 💰

He no go hungry

He no good bunny

El Malo Samaritano

Realmente . . . Sí

He look orange monkey

He da sunshine faker

He hound dog brother

He da Beastie’s bestie

He some mother trucker

Be dat Rosemary’s baby

He no Orlando Bloom

He more an algae bloom

Heaven’s angels flee

When he enters da room

He’ll golf club Cuba

And den smoke Havana

He da wheeler dealer

He do voodoo healer

He cure Che Guevara

He Canada conquer

He be hoodoo leader

He scam Atlanta big crime

Yet he do no hard time?

Dat Apprentice Master

He got Stephen Miller

As Right Hand Gorilla 🦧

He crypt Golden Tower

He eat dolce vita

He cancel da culture

He’ll TRUMP-LAND Gaza
🤠🗼🎡 🪂 ⛳️🏌🎢 🎪 🎠 🏖🏄

He no Saint Obama

He reheat old Dixie

He Tweet da Junkie

He dine da greedy

As he pardon turkey

To eat da needy

He Black Friday frenzy

He get wife for trophy 🏆

He blow da NATO

He da weenie Mussolini

He fit golf buggy snugly

As he say . . . “No, and no,
and no CONSPIRACY!”

One thing he can tell you
is confidentiality ain’t free
(just ask Mistress Stormy)

He avarice sponsor

He be uber spreader

He generous donor

He top secret taker

He snacks on grandma

He speaks da corn flakes

He hungry mouthpiece

He big business penis

He viagra da apparatus

He spandex da implants

He blame da Ukraine 🇺🇦

He Putin underpants

He stain on all of us 😢

He squeeze da juices

He cheese da slices

He teach true science

He counterfeit peace prize

Then stole da Tardis

He Doctor Who’s nemesis

He Iran da Hit Man

He corsage Bill Clinton

He no Hillary best friend

Miss Universe no miss him

As he felon da system

He full of conviction

He give narcissism meaning

He stalk Great Walrus

He be darkness footsteps

He da taxman locust 🦗

He pay bupkis

He give Bazos tax cuts

Elon he musk kiss 💋

He seek patriot short pants

He give rabies romance

He ‘Coup de Grâce’

Da trailer park ventriloquist

He give Kid Rock

Dat shrill voice

Even Lynyrd Skynyrd

Thinks he’s gross

(They told me confidentially 🤫
during a sweet Alabama séance )

He coitus da POTUS

So grossly acronymic

He in congress da office

Being da mostly

Obnoxiously neurotoxic

He be Putin’s first choice

He bend da straight

And ferments da hate

As he do da hocus pocus

The Best Left to Last
🔸️🔶️🥊 Versus 🥊🔷️🔹️
The Self-Righteousless

He reign in darkness ◼️

He shun da light 💡

Of idealogical correctness

He twerks the O ring

Emitting horrendous

Greenhouse gasses 💨

Even angelicals 😇

Need repent 🙏

How could they forget 😾

He da posse grabber (?!) 🙀

As he confects

Da heaven sent

With pseudo grace

As he laugh in da face

With a terrible dance

A YMCA disgrace

As he fuel da fossil

He drill, baby, drill

A real Primate

Climate Criminal

He limousine da back seat

He jack the Wall Street

He crack pepper da market

He preach da false profit

He confederates da riot

He working class opiate

He stroke dat bible belt

He scoundrel da patriot

He underlay da carpet

Lower than da underfelt

Democracy he tried to rig

Even Charlotte 🕷

Posted on the Dark Web 🕸

“He Ain’t No Humble Pig” 🐷

He nominate total control

His lawyers got no soul

He bork da process

He milks da snake oil

He poke da gun smoke

He broke da compass

He spark da trailer park

He berserk da shop clerk

You’d better run fast!

He bad seduction

He strain da mutation

He mainline division

He Meme da Bitcoin

He dice da Iceland

He stokes da bitchin’

bakin’ in Hell’s Kitchen

He’s got all you watchin’

He Epstein boy friend

He sky high deception

He Ghislaine’s wingman

(He’ll commute her sentence
as he vacates the Whitehouse)

He plastic road trip

He tariff da deficit

He traffic limp biscuit

He dystopian syndrome

He one schlick geriatric

He tweets and he groans

As he points da bone

Tapping on his iPhone

Casting the last stone

He Targaryen finest

His game . . .

‘Sit On Da Throne’ 👑

With another sacrifice

In Minneapolis

At da Altar of ICE

That Night King 🥶

With winter coming

He lowers the highness

As the White Walkers

Of Industrial Disruption

Bearing gifts

Of gilded corruption 🤑

Bow down before him

He shame da brand name

With nobody else to blame

He bull in a china shop 🦬

A proud boy with da lot

And all da money Daddy got

But I say . . .

“Arrivederci teenie il Duce!
Get back Jojo. Get back to
where you once belonged.
The Reich Chancellery, Mordor,
Mar-a-Lago, the USSR, that
Golden Tower, or wherever?
3 more years … It isn’t forever.
In the meantime, I pray for
America. Both north and south
of the equator 🌎” 🙏

~ David B. Redpath ©2021-26

Artwork;
David B. Redpath © 2021-26

Sculpture Photographed;
‘The Thinker’ ~ by Wisam Ibrahim

84 thoughts on “He Eat Dolce Vita (Revised ’26)”

    1. A landslide of thank yous, Elle 💛
      My hat says …
      “Make Him Stop Grating … Again!”
      On TV I saw him on the podium
      gyrating ( Or was it dancing?)
      during that non-stop re-election
      campaign. Fear not, the end is
      in sight.

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      2. The Cake of State 🍰 got altered
        and then left out in the rain ☔
        Somewhere in MacArthur Park?
        🎶 I don’t think that I can take it
        ‘cause it took so long to bake it 😢
        and I’ll never have that recipe again.

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  6. This is so incredible that I need to adopt a french accent and say instead ‘magnifique!‘
    However, were I to suggest any change, it would be a simple one: Replace all instances of ‘He’ with ‘Me’, on the grounds that it would provide the proper perspective for the orange 💩’s egocentrism.

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    2. From the rose garden of my heart,
      thank you very much 🌹🙏
      I wouldn’t dare speak on his behalf.
      Like one of his lawyers I could end
      up in jail, and cut adrift. Unless one
      gets a Presidential Pardon 🦃😎

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  8. The form this poem takes reminds me of “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. As for the content, it’s spot-on, as any sentient being could confirm. Watching the news this week, I fear that even when Trump is gone, the Trumpism he spawned won’t be, and they have an abundance of weapons, a paucity of brains, and no moral compass. A very, very dangerous combination.

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    1. Thanks for that, Liz 🙏💛
      You’ve just inspired me to give
      it a tweak, a tweet, and a twerk,
      for the sake of poetic justice.
      But as you know, being an alien 👽
      I never make unsolicited comments
      regarding U S politics 😱 🕶️

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  10. This was super creative and different somehow, and made me smile. Artwork is paradoxically beautiful and frightening. Love the colours, brushstrokes, layout, particularly of the second one. 🎨💗

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    1. After 4 years of watching that
      slow motion train wreck called
      The Fake Truman Show, it was
      time to write a review before
      the circus leaves town 😎
      Very gratifying that you liked
      my dabbling, Lia 🙏 I did some
      digital filtering after splashing
      the oil paints around 💦🎨

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      1. Oh and I thought, from a previous comment on a different post around election time, that you were also against Biden! Well, your wordplay was smashing. Very cool that you paint with oils. My mom sometimes did also. 👩‍🎨🖼💛

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      2. As Leonard Cohen once said …

        I’m sentimental,
        if you know what I mean.
        I love the country
        but I can’t stand the scene.
        And I’m neither left or right,
        just staying home tonight,
        getting lost
        in that hopeless little screen.
        But I’m stubborn as those garbage
        bags that time cannot decay.
        I’m junk, but I’m still holding up
        this little wild bouquet.
        Democracy is coming to the U.S.A.

        With oils you need to be very neat
        or be prepared to live with the mess
        … much like U.S. politics 🤔
        I can only guess that your mum was
        the type to clean up after herself 🎨
        … unlike Trump 😎
        I’m sure Biden, the winner of that
        Geriatric Beauty Pageant, couldn’t
        be any worse. But will he outlast
        Kamala Harris❓ Private interests,
        lobbyists 🤑 loaded up with bags
        of big business cash 💵 have totally
        corrupted the political process.
        If I was a cynical person I might
        just say that sleepy Joe is just
        another pig with his snout in the
        trough. But I’m not, so I’ll speak
        only of the President Elect with
        due respect 😇 🕶️

        As Bob Dylan might say …

        Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
        Political propaganda, it’s all phony.
        Goodness hides behind it’s gates,
        but even the President of the
        United States sometimes
        must have to stand naked.
        Though the rules of the road have
        been lodged, It’s people’s games,
        you got to dodge.
        But it’s alright, Ma, I can make it.

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      3. I am glad you can make it. As well as freely write it and paint it. :)) Democracy definitely helps with that, and voting preserves it. :)) 🙋‍♀️🗽🔆

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  11. Your artwork is fabulous. When I reached the end of the poem, I was thinking about how the poem plays with including and excluding verbs. When I saw the image, it stopped me in my tracks because it was a person who was still but was being pierced by the line. There is both stillness and movement, which made me think about the lines in your poem that are both still (no verbs) and in motion (with verbs.) – L.J.

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    1. Thanks John, and may
      the Desiderata be with you.
      As you correctly diagnosed,
      I was greatly influenced
      to write this piece by that
      other John 😎 So I made
      the choice to make mention
      of the Great Walrus.
      May he rest in peace 🙏

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    1. Being a lawyer, you’ll appreciate
      that I never name names, Anna 😎
      just in case Rudy is listening👂
      This piece of writing came to me
      in the form of a scary dream 😱
      late at night, during the witching
      hour⌚with a full moon rising 🌕

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    1. It’s all just one big Mar-a-Lago
      merry-go-round, Buckeye 🎠
      A comedy or a tragedy, only
      time … and a comprehensive
      investigation by the F.B.I., will
      tell. In the meantime I’m just
      grateful I live in a reality TV
      relatively free democracy 📺😎

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    1. Thanks for tuning in for my news
      bulletin to the brain, Katy 🙏 😎
      Is it just me, or has the World 🌎
      gone completely insane? 🤔 🕶️
      Lady Liberty 🗽seems to just be
      lollygagging whilst shit happens 😱

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      1. Always my pleasure, mindblowing-David!!! Yeah….it does seem as if the world has gone completely insane. I’m not sure what Lady Liberty is doing. I’ve been actively hopping on the thick cloud of Love and Prayers constantly surrounding the planet. I seriously believe although we don’t see it many places we look within society…there is a major force of healing and transformation occurring. Like childbirth…painful, messy and completely beyond our comprehension. I have to believe this. And even if I’m wrong, for me personally, it’s a great place to put my energy at this time. We’ve all got to do whatever feels right in our hearts. Egad, though, the challenges around the planet are A LOT to live with, take in and to process!!! It’s impossible to know what to do at times. Cheers and Hugs though, and Thank You again!!! 🥰🙏🏼😎❤️🍪☮️💖🌎🌻🐬💕🤗

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      3. Oh gosh!!!! WOW!!!! This is SOOOO lovely, David!!! Thank You with all my heart!!! May Yours be as well! Sending You HUGE hugs and tons of love, my friend! ❤️🙏🏼🐬☮️🌻🤗💖!

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  25. That’s got to be one of your best yet Dude! You sure bin one bizzy ‘twerking the ‘o’ ring’ with your ‘weenie apparatus’ ‘mother trucker’. Love the phone sculpture.

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    1. Greatly appreciated.😎
      From the safety of distance, some
      10,000 miles away from the U.S.A.
      . . . dare I say . . . 🤔🕶️
      Could there be four more years of
      comedy gold 🏆 or a cavalcade of
      dystopian dysfunction down the
      yellow brick road to Armageddon?

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      1. More of a tragedy than a comedy I fear. The king has been proclaimed but not yet crowned. There’s been a few attempts to take him out recently and I’m sure they ain’t done yet. My money is on DJV ascending the throne – sooner or later. Watch this space. I didn’t watch / follow any of this farce either before or after the fact. My belief is that the outcome had already been decided long ago.

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      2. Many were sure that natural causes
        would take out President Joe Biden,
        leaving Kamala to carry on.
        U.S. politics has become a geriatric
        beauty contest. Obviously points are
        awarded for capitalistic ugliness,
        well masked with a patriotic smiley
        face. The ability to mould reality into
        your own likeness, with an ego that’s
        the biggest, is a must. Just ask Elon
        Musk.

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