To the Heartland

May I remind you, in case you've forgotten?

Trump’s tariffs didn't work: Xi bought from Brazil.

Your soybeans filled bins, all unsold and rotten.

His trade war left you no orders to fill.

 

He failed in that game, Donnie the con.

While your soy farms lay fallow, flooded or failed,

In his quest for more power, you were his pawn.

Many of you went bankrupt; some were indeed jailed.

 

Farm bailouts for ballots was his remedy, tit-for-tat,

But you now slide down a soybean oil slope.

Tax dollars bought votes and your new MAGA hat.

Your vote was misplaced, not to mention your hope.

 

Bailouts are now unfunded. Imagine that.

He’s putting and driving; you're barely existing.

While schmoozing with dictators, his assets grow fat.

He laughs at you farmers in the wind slowly twisting.

 

—Will Walsh  2020