“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”
Written by Frost; Señor Trump buys it not
He will build a wall over ninety feet tall
But his tirades last night did reveal quite a lot
Aside from his claims clearly lacking for fact
Such as hordes of illegals each day streaming in
And stealing our jobs and performing bad acts
That Trumple is nativist isn’t just spin
It does indicate glaring gaps fundamental
Today’s GOP suffers major divides
The Trump nativism, itself isn’t fatal
But could well foretell of the Party’s demise
If GOP fissions, then what happens next
This new xenophobia, long it may thrive
A Know-Nothing party revised in context
Republican moderates might not survive
9/1/16
Reminded me of this (no deep meaning other than what you might ascribe – for me, it just reminded me):
From A Midsummers Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
Modern text from http://nfs.sparknotes.com/msnd/page_158.html
WALL
(played by SNOUT) At this point I, Snout, play a wall. But not just any wall. I want you to understand that I’m pretending to be a kind of wall that has a little hole in it. The lovers Pyramus and Thisbe often whispered very secretly through that hole. This clay, this cement, and this stone that I’m carrying around show that I’m that wall. It’s the truth. And this is the crack, right side and left side (points with two fingers), through which the frightened lovers will be whispering.
THESEUS
Can you imagine cement and stone talking better?
DEMETRIUS
It’s the smartest partition I’ve ever heard speak, my lord.
PYRAMUS enters.
THESEUS
Pyramus is coming up to the wall. Be quiet!
PYRAMUS
(played by BOTTOM) Oh, grim-looking night! Oh, night that is so black in color! Oh night, which is always there when it is not day! Oh night! Oh night! So sad, sad, sad,
I’m afraid my Thisbe has forgotten her promise!—And you, oh Wall, oh sweet, oh lovely Wall, you stand between her father’s property and mine, you Wall, oh Wall, oh sweet and lovely Wall. Show me your hole to stick my eye up against!
WALL holds up two fingers
Thank you, you’re such a polite wall. God bless you for doing this. But what’s this I see? I don’t see any Thisbe. Oh wicked wall, through which I don’t see any happiness! Damn your stones for disappointing me like this!
THESEUS
Since the wall is conscious, it should curse back at him.
BOTTOM
(out of character) No, actually, sir, he shouldn’t say anything. It’s not his turn, it’s Thisbe’s. “Disappointing me like this” is Thisbe’s cue. She’s supposed to enter now, and I’ll see her through the wall. You’ll see, it’ll happen exactly like I say. Here she comes.
THISBE enters.
THISBE
(played by FLUTE) Oh wall, you’ve often heard me moaning because you keep me separated from my handsome Pyramus! My cherry lips have often kissed your bricks, which are stuck together with cement.
PYRAMUS
I see a voice! I’ll go to the hole to see if I can hear my Thisbe’s face. Thisbe?
THISBE
You are my love, my love, I think.
PYRAMUS
I’m your love, no matter what you think. And I’m still faithful to you, just like the famous Limander
THISBE
And I’ll be as faithful to you as Helen of Troy, until the day I die.
PYRAMUS
Not even Shafalus was as faithful to his lover Procrus as I am to you.
THISBE
Me too, I’m as faithful as Shafalus to Procrus.
PYRAMUS
Oh, kiss me through the hole in this nasty wall.
THISBE
But I’m only kissing the wall’s hole, not your lips at all.
PYRAMUS
Will you meet me right away at Ninny’s grave?
THISBE
Neither death nor life will stop me from coming.
PYRAMUS and THISBE exit.
WALL
I, Wall, have done my part. Now that I’m done, Wall can go away.
WALL exits.
I love it!!