Outrage

There’s no decorum or respect

Within the White House walls

And cameras let us witness

Some behavior that appalls.

 

Invite a foreign dignitary

Then berate, insult, accuse –

That’s the playbook for a bully

Desperate to be in the news.

 

Why would any other country,

After seeing that display,

Send a leader, knowing he or she’d

Be treated in that way?

 

Every day brings more examples

Of outrageousness and shock

Which, at one time, simply seemed like

Acts of bluster we would mock.

 

But the stakes have gotten higher

And if all the guardrails fail,

Someday writing such a poem just might

Have me end up in jail.