Historical Déjà Vu (a poem of warning and remembrance)

This isn't new

It's all part of the horrors of being human

It's reality TV gone wrong, it's Truman

Are we swimming in a sea of misinformation or are we drowning?

Are we stillborn or are we crowning?

I don't know what all the fears about

Just because the country's browning

We should be afraid of the orange man because he's the one whose clowning

This whole script needs more scrutiny

It's a not a movement it's a mutiny

Maybe we should merge with Russia because this feels very Putin-y

I'm not trying to be cutesy, this is lunacy

We're on the verge of World War III

Does anyone else feel panicky?

This isn't fake news or a SNL parody

It's a moment of outrage and moral clarity

The New Deal is no longer green

I'm not sure Don even knows what the word "tariffs" mean

Inflated egos and economies

This feels like a pattern not an anomaly

This isn't new

It's reminiscent of World War II

It's all part of the horrors of being human

It severance, it's Lumon

Historical amnesia

Eugenics without anesthesia

We even have religious fanatics paying reverence

To a modern-day Caesar Jesus wouldn't see fit for President

It's fear, it's Kier, it's Emperor Palpatine summoning the dark side

Anti-DEI, anti-Palestine, it's cultural genocide 

It's time the truth becomes declassified

Cause this feels like a bad group chat signaling to the world America has died

I know dictatorship has its degrees

But it's Fahrenheit 451, they're banning books and fanning flames of greed

Congress has lost its fight its only flight or freeze

Dude, where's my liberties?

The only thing this useful idiot is good at is making enemies

When you're stuck in the past you can't advance

Hell's unleashed when you give the devil a lap dance

I need an elegy for VP Vance

Because being a hill-bully is not a stance

They're trying to turn history on a dime

But RFK is no FDR (he opposed Hitler in his time)

They're building a new Nazi regime

Pimping bibles like a Ponzi scheme

They're whitewashing the American dream 

Proud boys and girls only more extreme

Are you starting to see a theme?

This Manchurian candidate isn't a mogul, he's a cringy meme

The right-wing is pandering to hatred

Gerrymandering to turn dem states red

This Matrix-like Agent Smith-shit is overkill

I guess we should have taken the blue pill

If you want to make America great

Don't follow Germany's blueprint from 1938

America first isn't the first dark night 

It's just a reformation of the Third Reich

Now they are amending our first amendment rights

But "We The People" haven't even begun to fight 

I'm not talking about another civil war

This isn't black vs white, its rich versus poor

Economic apartheid is Musk's endgame

Its slavery by another name

He's hunting big game like Dick Chaney

Slashing costs like Old Navy

Is a sexual predator really running the Army and Navy?

All this chaos is only gravy

Even Republicans are getting sick of it

This nitwit wants to turn Gaza into the Vegas strip

O Canada, we know you're not for sale

This unjust thug is just trying to tip the scale

Stand strong Greenland and Panama, these obscene gestures are bound to fail

This isn't new though

Project 2025 reads like a fascist manifesto

It's now open season on liberals

And no consequences for militia's who storm the Capitols

You can't litigate this unmitigated scourge

We can't survive four years of this purge

Can democrats pass this cognitive test?

Give a shit or at least crap on a desk

The pent up rage of J6 was intense

Don't forget these dense basement dwellers almost hung Mike Pence

Is this the end of democracy?

Will anyone defend human rights and oppose this atrocity?

These aren't patriots they're Benedict Arnolds

Meanwhile, the Commander in Chief is too busy trying to be Arnold Palmer

Only this "king" is much less calmer

Spending his days golfing across America

He's gone off the deep end renaming the Gulf, the Gulf of America

This isn't new

It's all part of the horrors of being human

It's COVID,

It's avian flu

It's blues versus reds

It's chickens versus the high cost of eggs

It's fear, it's Dred.

It's emboldening society's dregs

There are so many questions this begs

Why do men win and women lose?

Why do sharks force themselves in

And force women to choose

Why do we excuse this abuse?

Susan B. did her part, now it's on me and you

What's pro-life about predatory laws

Producing more bleeding women than all three Jaws

You can't pay attention and not be appalled

Letting Lady Liberty get Stonewalled

Division isn't a compelling vision

I guess the faith of our fathers has always been slave religion

It's not normal for presidents to have henchmen?

As far as villains go, 47 is in his own dimension

As unrepentant as a Bible Belt lynchman

Is he a demoniac or is it early onset dementia?

This red hat maniac is a megalomaniac

So thin skinned a rogue mic makes him feel attacked 

He's a racist who "likes the blacks"

As long as they sit on the bus in the back

He's signaling the four horsemen

Deporting everyone except Anglos and Norsemen

These are dreamers and hopeful citizens not Alien Enemies

Act with more compassion before we lose any more of our humanity

We're exporting cruelty overseas

silencing any reporting that exposes fraudulent activities

There's no cure for this MAGA disease

It's 1984, "war is peace"

Anyone trust this Grand Duke's greasy fingers handling the nukes?

He lost his cool just because Zelensky didn't wear a suit

His mood hasn't been this Stormy since he had to pay off a prostitute

POTUS is in the oval office getting off on strife

His era of terror makes Voldemort seem like Barney Fife

Don't trust Melania with a knife

The First Lady isn't even his second wife

Dodged a Slovenian bullet only to lose her life

The Art of the Deal is: everyone has their price

These robber barons act more like a mob 

Spreading their vindictive venom like an infectious blob

Schumer isn't striking back, he's Silent Bob

There's no communist coup, it's an inside job

This isn't new

It's why the South never stopped singing the blues

And why the Holocaust will never be forgotten by the Jews

It's all part of the horrors of being human

Time to get out of bed and shake off this dread

Stop moping around like the Walking Dead

The only way to kill a spider is to cut off its head

There's a lot to do with midterms ahead

Instead of the bullet, let the ballot ring

It wasn't just a bullet that killed Lincoln, JFK, and King

It was fear itself, oppression is an enduring thing

It's all part of the horrors of being human

This isn't new

It's historical déjà vu