A New Year Poem From Kevin Higgins

Kevin Higgins

 

On The Departure From Office Of Barack Obama

You are the bed we’d happily have slept in,

if only we’d managed to assemble you

but there was always a bit missing.

So you forced us to spend the night

admiring the pictures in the brochure.

The exquisite wrapping

on a box with zilch in it

except a mildly amusing joke

you had written for you

but delivered with such charisma

it set people whispering

that you’re the political wing

of Earth, Wind, and Fire

without the heavy ideology.

The skinny kid

with the funny name who dared

hope in the face of adversity

and on your watch

Wall Street got the biggest

hard-on in its history

and you kept feeding it

interest free Viagra.

For the rest of us

you’re the medicine

that tasted excellent

until we woke up almost dead.

                        January 20^th 2016

KEVIN HIGGINS