Bare-chested, face-painted, KKK-tattooed,
Viking-horned, raccoon-hatted trespasser
poses for photo in the Senate chamber
standing behind the Vice President’s
flag-draped dais
with velvet curtains behind
and “E Pluribus Unum” on the frieze above
He’s known as the Q-Shaman
‘Twas a time you might see a character like him
wandering a rock festival or Rainbow Gathering
mulling about at a Yippie rally or at The Fugs’ levitation of the Pentagon
but he’d be harmless and few would pay him much mind
Now he’s a leading “spokesman” for the Q-Anon conspiracy movement
with write-ups in Business Weekly and Newsweek
an “influencer” likely soon to get his own reality tv show
and get to Party with Kanye West, Dennis Rodman, and Ivanka Trump
Unless the rumors of Q-Shaman
being an Antifa spy married to Pelosi’s daughter
gain traction
force him to go into hiding by adopting a clean-cut look
and becoming a bank clerk in Omaha
BIO: Short Bio: John Roche helps his wife Jules Nyquist run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and Poetry Playhouse Publications. He is the editor of the Poets Speak anthologies and the author of five poetry collections, the most recent of which is Joe Rides Again: The Further Travels of Joe the Poet (FootHills Publishing, 2020).
