J.C. Elkin Verse-Virtual 2016 October

October 2016

I am an optimist, linguist, singer and M.F.A. candidate at Bennington College. My collection World Class: Poems Inspired by the ESL Classroom is based on my experiences teaching English to adult immigrants. Other works drawing on spirituality, feminism, travel, and childhood appear domestically and abroad in such journals as The Delmarva Review, Kestrel, and Angle. For more information, please visit my website, www.jcelkin.net .

Election 2016

Dumbocrats all aTwitter
over that bullyonaire glowerpuss
on the fascist track to Thief Executive

Repugnicans on Racebook
slamming that Recklessary of State
as too gliberal and smugly

A country harmed and dangerous
where words are weapons
with no pun control

-first publised in New Verse News

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