Old Men You Have Betrayed Us
The Leader’s lips are indigo. Drawn by the ghostly,
trembling hand of fate that tells, soundlessly, the tale
of Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus for thirty silver
coins. Mr. Minority Leader takes no lessons from Judas,
whose bowels erupted and cast him into Potter’s Field.
Machiavelli is his man, patron saint of power and
unrelenting lust. Silver will rot your lips, Mr. Leader,
invade your bowels, and corrode your grasp on power.
Do you feel the bile rising?
His testicles hang low, chafing the skin of his
inner thighs, despite the firm embrace of cotton briefs.
Youth long ago abandoned those thin membranes and their
contents, leaving them slack and ineffective. No shame there —
age intrudes on everyone of us. But no excuses
for the slack membranes of your integrity, your withered
balls of rectitude, your servile complicity in abuse of
sacred vows, your infidelity in the service of power.
Old man, you have betrayed us.
Oh, Lindsey! The ghost of John McCain bemoans your
faithless soul. Spineless little lickspittle in search of “relevance,”
you grovel and slither a path glistening with obsequious
devotion. Scared little man with bedroom eyes — what makes
you so afraid? John’s broken shoulders left him unable
to lift his arms and yet he carried you,
wrapped in the cloak of his integrity — which you
discarded like the wrapper of an ice cream bar.
Is the trash worth the treasure?
The base! The base! We must appease the base!
Scuttle and come together, obfuscate and avoid. An out!
Pretend it didn’t happen and, even if it did,
free speech is protected, no matter how seditious. Consider
that he’s gone, and how does that make sense,
to prosecute the absent, regardless of his guilt? Process
and technicalities, my friend, are allies in our quest
to put this mess behind us and move on —
move on and count the votes.
About DonkeyHotey’s art
The art of DonkeyHotey is a combination of caricature, photo collage and photo manipulation. The resulting work can be categorized as caricature, cartoon, illustration and art depending on the intent. His cartoons have been seen in BuzzFeed, Campaign for America’s Future, CBS MoneyWatch, Common Dreams, Daily Kos, Examiner.com, Fast Company, Esquire.com, Firedoglake, Forbes, In These Times, IPS, Mother Jones, Neon Tommy, The Guardian, The Jimmy Dore Show, Truthdig, and dozens of others. His work can be found at https://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey
