The Sixth Day of January

I dozed off 
on the sofa
while watching the news
on an uneventful day
in the first week
of the new year,
but awakened 
to be bewildered and angered
by live news coverage
of a violent attack 
on the U.S. Capitol.

Members 
of Congress and 
the Vice-President fled
to seek sanctuary 
where it could be found
as law enforcement officers
were confronted 
by belligerent traitors
filled with hubris and
a sense of entitlement 
who defecated and urinated 
in public places
with no sense
of shame.

A demented mob 
breached one 
of the most sacred 
and secure buildings 
in our nation 
as it violently delivered 
to Capitol Hill 
the “American carnage”
their leader pledged to stop
four years earlier
in his Inaugural Address.

The Capitol Building 
of the United States 
of America is sacred 
because it is a living witness  
and memorial dedicated to the ideals 
of our democratic republic, and 
a legislative forum for the voices 
of the people to be heard
through the debate and compromise 
of duly elected officials sworn 
to protect the Constitution and
in whom the people entrust their confidence.

The con man
with no moral compass
who orchestrated 
the lawlessness 
had been elected
to serve as President 
of the United States
by those enamored 
with a fictional image 
of a grandiose man 
with blonde hair and 
the illusion of wealth
in a white body created 
for entertainment purposes.


Four years later,
known as a convicted felon
and a compulsive liar
who downplayed 
the death and destruction 
of that day at the Capitol, 
again he was given keys 
to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
from where he offered pardons
to the thugs convicted 
of committing crimes
against our nation 
on the sixth day 
of January in 2021.