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Five Twitter Poems | Trumposaurus Rex

I.

Don’t push a poem

don’t drag it out

and stand it up

against a wall

let the – ready –

obedient – aim –

write it in – fire.

II.

How we laughed

when you rose

golden orange

from the yolk

of your glittering

Fabergé egg

How strange it was

to see you grow

Trumposaurus Rex

III.

Then she slid towards me

like a frightened child across

her wall-to-wall bed, and I

could almost feel her willing

me to hug her to death

IV.

Such clear, cold nights

are made for the naked

patient eye to spy

smaller constellations

distant smudges in the sky

V.