My Awesome God’s Full of Hope!

(an off-the-cuff villanelle, kind of by request)

Because we live in a time of pure dread
our future at the mercy of madmen
I worship the awesome god in my head.

Bush kisses his nukes each night before bed
while Cheney cackles away in his den
because we live in a time of pure dread.

With Rudi’s campaign not yet in the red
and Huckabee-ing America’s friend
I worship the awesome god in my head.

McCain wants Asians and Muslims all dead
and crazy Paul raises crazy millions
because we live in a time of pure dread.

While Clinton plays word games, “he said, she said”
so angry, shameless, determined to win
I worship the awesome god in my head.

“I’m perfect,” Obama has never said
appealing instead to the hope within.
Because we live in a time of pure dread,
I worship the awesome god in my head.

(Side note: I hate formal poetry and this is the first time I ever attempted a villanelle. Nice exercise but I still hate the form.)

About Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez works in publishing by day, world domination by night. Over the years he’s lived in Staten Island and South Beach Miami; served in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, US Army, and Dennis Kucinich’s ‘04 Presidential Campaign; won poetry slams, founded a reading series, co-authored a book of poetry, and self-published another; prefers Pumpkin and India Pale Ales, Buffalo Trace and Four Roses Bourbons, and Dona Paula Shiraz Malbec. He’s a devout Mets fan from the Bronx now living in New Jersey, and has a beautiful wife and two amazing kids.

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