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This House Stinks

        By Majid Naficy

This house is not yours. 

Go back to your concrete tower

With its golden toilet!

The one who will replace you

Must be the leading light of this nation

Not like you, the head of criminals.

It is not long

Until the Mississippi River

Joins the Colorado

And washes off your four-year filth

Thoroughly from this house.*

Rise, oh American Hercules

Who live in the hearts of

Every informed woman and man.

Rise! Rise!

This house stinks! 

        May 22, 2020

* An allusion to Hercules’ washing-off the Augean stables.