Charles Rammelkamp

ORANGE LIES MATTER

one of the signs at the protest rally declared.
The man is legendary, spewing falsehoods,
some innocuous, stupid, childish, boastful,
others malicious, dangerous and hurtful.

Remember the one about Haitians
eating other people’s household pets?
How he insisted it was true?
One of the most basic urban legends around,
immigrants eating neighbors’ dogs,
like alligators in the sewer system.
I wonder if he even believed it.

One thing’s for sure:
lots of people did, and those poor Haitians
in Springfield were scared shitless,
righteous MAGA followers ready to kill,
all for the lies of a deranged old man.

A funny Facebook meme –
An interviewer asks Trump,
“What’s your favorite lie?”
Trump answers “I don’t lie.”
The interviewer says:
“Yeah, I love that one, too.”


Charles' YouTube reading of "Orange Lies Matter"


Charles confesses: "Sometimes I think I am over Trump's constant lying - What else is new? Just more background noise. But at others I realize just how dangerous he is and I become enraged all over again."

CHARLES RAMMELKAMP is Prose Editor for BrickHouse Books in Baltimore. His poetry collection, A Magician Among the Spirits, poems about Harry Houdini, is a 2022 Blue Light Press Poetry winner. A collection of poems and flash called See What I Mean? was recently published by Kelsay Books, and another collection of persona poems and dramatic monologues involving burlesque stars, The Trapeze of Your Flesh, was recently published by BlazeVOX Books.