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golden bull

golden bull

1 March 2025 /Posted byDavid Betteridge
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On viewing the AI-generated video Trump Gaza, shared by President Trump on his Truth Social outlet

Trump has come to save the dollar.
Bucks are king, we hear him holler.
Bucks and fucks and real estate –
to have excess of these is my birth-right fate.

Sealing the deal is Trump’s key strength.
To come out tops, he’ll go to any length,
even to Gaza, even to Mars, or further.
All scruples, norms and laws he’ll gladly murder.

You worship a golden calf, some critics cry,
as Aaron in the Bible did.

Not half!
is the boastful crook’s reply.
My calf’s a bull, a golden bull,
a lot like me, as all can see.

We look:
but the only bullish thing that’s here,
that’s evident, is what bulls void,
with noise and smells, we fear.

David’s latest book of poems, Sapling & Wood, is available here

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David Betteridge is the author of a collection of poems celebrating Glasgow and its radical traditions, 'Granny Albyn's Complaint', published by Smokestack Books in 2008. He is also the editor of a compilation of a book celebrating the 1971-2 UCS work-in on Clydeside, called 'A Rose Loupt Oot', published by Smokestack Books in 2011. His latest book is 'Sapling & Wood', published by Culture Matters.

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