TRAGIC Poem: Snow Whites, by Kathy McGoldrick

after the 2024 presidential election

Like carbonating old limestone,
several citadals of crooked old men
leak steroids into a water-source,
piss viagra through their packages.
They stand as best they can,
awaiting some lungs
and liver

Mirror, mirror on the wall
who is the fairest of them all?

A pretty middle-rich cat is casing your joint —
a walker, treehouse topper,
leotard leopard
plumped puma
cougar.
Blessed be her expensive face,
her perfect nose
twitching for the lungs and liver

and the spirit-squat janes
in mad red caps and big bad boob hearts
swollen in hyperbole are
everywhere
mining for the man
mean participles of policy,
singing above the pick-din
nasty night folk songs about
bad daddies.
Lord help them
when they finish only
to find at their doorsteps
their own daughters’
lungs and livers.

Nothing is fair now.