Swatting

When swatting a mosquito,

What you’re trying to prevent

Is an itchy bite and no one

Would object to your intent.

 

Yet swatting’s definition

Has evolved into a threat,

Whereby false reports made to the police

Are sent without regret.

 

The judges now presiding

In Trump’s trials, it appears,

Have been targets of such swatting –

Something new in their careers.

 

Just how low these swat fanatics

Seem to go should bring us pause,

Since there’s utter disregard

For all our well-established laws.

 

We should shudder when we think of

Those who, under MAGA’s sway,

Will bring anarchy upon us

Which we cannot swat away.