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Where are the heroes? Ubi Sunt Poem

Where are the heroes?

During the Watergate era
When faced with criminality
Of Nixon
Then the greatest crook
To become President

There were political heroes
Who stood up to Nixon
Told him it was time to go.

Flash forward to today
When there are no Republicans
Standing up to the greatest con man
The greatest criminal to become President.

They all have kissed his ass
For fear of riling up his base
And no one is willing

To be the one to tell him
It is time to go.

The democrats
Are worried that Biden
Is too old to run
And need to retire.

But no one wants
To force him out
Although they know
He cannot win.

And Trump if he is re-elected
He will be a dictator
In the mode of his hero
Orban
.
And no one can stop him
For fear of ending up
In his camps
For dissidents and migrants.



The Ubi Sunt is a thematic form dealing with the transitory nature of this world. The name is a Latin phrase meaning "Where are they?" The structure is left entirely up to the poet, as described and demonstrated in the following links:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/learn/glossary-terms/ubi-sunt

https://pennyspoetry.fandom.com/wiki/Ubi_sunt

https://research.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2014/02/11/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-...