Please allow me to introduce myself

I’m the promoter of chaos, power,

Opulent wealth and gaudy taste.

I’ve been around millennia and still here today,

I promote censorship and undermining your faith,

I was ’round when the Civil War came

And Lincoln had his moments of doubt and pain

Made damn sure, Booth had plans to seal his fate.

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name

But what’s distressing you is

How to explain my fame.

I was in Europe

When it was the right time to play,

Made sure the trenches were dug,

While millions screamed in vain

I was glum when the Armistice was proclaimed,

It disrupted my time frame.

Made sure Adolf, Benito, Franco, and Joseph

Were heads of state to restart my game.

When the blitzkrieg and Holocaust raged

And many more millions died,

I whispered, “Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name,

Ah, what’s puzzling you

Is the reason for my game.”

 

I watched with glee,

As the military industrial complex came to be

And communism spread too,

Then a president, a pope, and Solidarity

Caused me to be blue.

So, I conjured up,

Oligarchs, crime syndicates, Vladimir,

Jinping, Un, and 45 too.

Who killed democracy?

After all it was me and you,

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name,

But what’s puzzling you

Is the purpose of my game,

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name,

But what’s confusing you

Is just how many are playing my game.

 

Greed — my calling card,

My cover — “You not knowing what not to believe.”

My merchandise — ignorance, starvation, and human rights violations

Just to mention a few, that I conceived.

What’s scaring you is, there is no end to my reign.

Just as Capitol and Metro police officers are criminals

And J6 convicts saints,

Navalny is deceased,

And starvation, death, and destruction rage in the Middle East,

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name,

But what’s puzzling you

Is the reason why I came,

As facts don’t matter and truths are lies

Just call me your worst nightmare

’Cause I’m in need of some restraint.

 

So, if you meet me

Have some courtesy

Have some sympathy, and give me your loyalty and faith

Remember criminal and civil laws,

Apply to you but not to me,

And if you try to make them, I’ll just delay and delay.

When I’m in charge again

I’ll lay the rule of law and your government agencies to waste.

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name,

But what’s blinding you

Is my marketing game.

 

Tell me MAGA acolyte, can y’all guess my game?

Tell me, Republican, Democrat, Independent, and

Citizen who isn’t voting, what’s my name?

I’ll tell you this, you’re to blame,

When your freedoms and democracy are gone

You’ll curse my name.

Please show me some sympathy

Or face my revenge and rage.

It all promotes my game.

Pleased to meet you, what’s my name?

Robert Kubacki lives in Greenfield.