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Life With Trump V, Vi, Vii, Viii

Author's Note: Recite the following using the rhythm and melody of "Home, home on the range where the deer and the antelope play." The first verse can be used as the refrain: His income tax structure is strange Donald will the needy shortchange The overly rich Claim their life is a b-i-t-c-h For them he’ll find bucks on the range A clear planet earth never smokes But Trump’s cohorts grim are the Kochs Where fossils remain They'll tear into the plain Fracking rigs are their dirty jokes There's fat upon Miss USA The Donald says queen you shall pay! "For my regal job" She did painfully sob "Is rehab a roll in the hay?" Like buffalo once were so vast Our middle class was unsurpassed Now they are the prey While republicans play And deny the climate forecast

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Terry O'Leary

Date: 3/26/2017 1:58:00 PM

4 more nails in our coffin! Well done, Duke!! Terry

Duke Beaufort
Date: 4/16/2017 5:44:00 PM

Yeah, I enjoyed writing these. I was watching CNN repeat itself a million times about nothing, and I am thinking that we are in really bad shape. The media analysis is quite in accurate and weak. I think it would be best if they just admitted they don't understand what is happening and let you take over the commentary sections of the broadcasts.

Debbie Duncan

Date: 2/26/2017 9:08:00 PM

Maybe he won't be as bad as some think. Or maybe I should take my rose colored glasses off and see the world as it really is, my Mom used to tell me. Or maybe it's like going on a first date or a roller coaster, calm down. Things won't be as bad as you think :)

Duke Beaufort
Date: 3/9/2017 7:00:00 PM

It's likely to be worse. The billionaires are in charge, and they have no idea what it means to make an honest living. No possibility of empathy for us.

Duke Beaufort

Date: 2/20/2017 9:15:00 AM

Richard, as I read these things, I am saddened. As I was saying, even a smart selfish person realizes that they have to share with others for their own well being. So how stupid is this guy? What is strange is that many people can't see through it. I think if we had a better candidate to oppose this guy, he would be a footnote right now.

Richard Lamoureux

Date: 2/18/2017 8:31:00 AM

Well expressed!

Duke Beaufort
Date: 2/20/2017 9:15:00 AM

See my response to you above.

Paloma P

Date: 12/10/2016 5:24:00 PM

Oh a song who many sing, and the band plays on, I cringe to think of the future with this tyrannical maniac. You've got perfect pitch.

Duke Beaufort
Date: 2/11/2017 8:38:00 AM

Your voice is sweet and right on the mark. We are going to have a tough time. It will be very painful. The very rich are laughing, but they won't be when the planet explodes.

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/21/2016 5:10:00 PM

OH MY, you HIT IT RIGHT ON THE SPOT. All those idiots will soon learn you are so right about this. FAVE!!!!

Duke Beaufort
Date: 2/11/2017 8:13:00 AM

It's unfortunate because this group of thugs has no shame at all. We're already seeing some bad things. I can't see the point of deporting someone who's been here for twenty years and separating the person from her husband and children. This man is a t-RUMP-osaurus.

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 11/19/2016 2:01:00 PM

- I think you will love my poem: - God Bless America - posted 08/03/2016, Duke :)) - // hugs :)

Duke Beaufort
Date: 2/11/2017 8:06:00 AM

I love all you work. I just wrote something based upon your poem "Showtime". You are perceptive.

Constance La France

Date: 11/14/2016 9:05:00 PM

Duke, great write , it's such a tangled Web and who knows what will happen. ..

Duke Beaufort
Date: 11/19/2016 4:40:00 PM

If I could predict the future, that would be something. When bullies prevail, something really bad always happens. That much I do know. There is something really wrong here.

Jan Allison

Date: 11/13/2016 3:26:00 AM

you are so darn funny Duke that final part made me splutter my cuppa tea lol:-)Keep the humour flowing my friend!!! I love this political satire. hugs Jan xx

Duke Beaufort
Date: 11/13/2016 2:55:00 PM

Now it's the second to last verse. Have done some editing. The more I read the news, the more I have to believe this is going to be real bad. I hope I am wrong, but I doubt it.

Duke Beaufort
Date: 11/13/2016 8:02:00 AM

Jan, the last verse was a rewrite of a limerick I had written several years ago when a Trump pageant winner had some problems with alcohol. I knew then that something sick was going on. Never liked the guy from the onset because he is a narcissistic sicko. So now, we are left with laughter while we will be misled. Not that the alternative was so great either.