...Rob Long’s Bigly: Donald Trump in Verse (Regnery Publishing, 2017) takes a different tack. Instead of randomly assembling words, Long lifted verbatim quotes from our current president going as far back as the 1980s and changed only the formatting and punctuation to create 100 poems in free verse. The result is a collection of The Donald’s reflections on life, love, beauty, and death in a style reminiscent of Ezra Pound. Combined with fawning commentary, it is yugely hilarious.
Consider “Poorly Educated,” which is taken from Trump’s Nevada Primary victory speech in February 2016:
So we won the evangelicals.
We won with young.
We won with old.
We won with highly educated.
We won with poorly educated —
I love the poorly educated!
...There is also “The Pope”:
The Pope
I hope
Can only be scared
By God.
...Donald Trump’s magnificent poem “It”:
We need that thinking.
We have the opposite thinking.
We have losers.
We have losers.
We have people that don’t have
It.