Day Ten ... NaPoWriMo / Poem-a-Day 2018

Maureen Thorson’s NaPoWriMo prompt: "Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem of simultaneity – in which multiple things are happening at once." Robert Lee Brewer’s Poem-a-Day prompt: the typical Two-for-Tuesday prompt . . . "a deal poem" and/or "a no deal poem." Simultaneously Deal / No Deal Turns out The Art of the Deal is really The Art of No Deal. “There’s no there there,” as Gertrude Stein famously said. At the very same time he says, “I love DREAMers,” Trump says, “There is no DACA deal.” Deal, no deal, deal, no deal. Trump says, lawmakers are petrified of the NRA, while simultaneously he says the NRA are “great patriots,” “well-meaning.” “We’re not in a trade war with China” but, same tweet, on trade deficit, “We cannot let this continue!” Ditto: real, fake, deal, break. —Draft by Vince Gotera    [Do not copy or quote . . . thanks.] Illustration by Edel Rodriguez in Politico (May 2016) Friends, won’t you comment, please? Love to know what you’re thinking. To comment, look for a red line below that starts Posted by, then click once on the word comments in that line. If you don’t find the word “comments” in that line, then look for a blue link below that says Post a comment and click it once. Thanks! Ingat, everyone.  ヅ

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