Emperor’s Indecent Exposure + Poetry Friday

Recently I have been working on a twisted fairy tale poetry collection called Felonious Fairy Tales. Today I am going to share a poem I wrote based on the fairy tale, The Emperor's New Clothes  (it's a political one...can you guess who it is about?)

Emperor preens

attention-whore looks

for his next trick

foreign rogue

see opportunity in the unseen

Emperor’s extortion contortions

large sum of money

for election alterations

Emperor is fitted

victory visible for the unfit

Electoral College flaws 

transparent

whirring danger looms

Emperor’s advisors spin truth

self-preservation fabrication

foreign rogue constructs

fitting suit

stretching the truth

royal procession

Inaugural ball

orange puff buff

Emperor wears

nothing but

spray tan and goosebumps

media calls Emperor out

the naked truth replaced 

by twittering blue bird

foreign rogue

pulling threads from afar

Emperor’s puppeteer 

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