Hampshire College Bans Flag from Its Flagpost

The reaction to Trump’s win by too many students is like a tantrum of two year old temper

Too many faculty and coddled students in spoiled political distemper

From Play-Doh sessions to grief counseling to midterms to postpone

In an environment where conservative thought and speakers are in the no go zone

Hampshire College’s action to ban the flying of our flag from its flagpole now takes the cake

After flying it at half mast to protest Trump’s win what a colossal big mistake

The man has not even in the Oval Office taken his chair and already the coddled students vilify

His plans to restore prosperity a lemming mentality of faculty and students to deny

Better would be to ape DeNiro whose “He’s a punk….” script tossed into the trash

To wait and see and hope for the better before again to rant, demonize and bash

Who in their right mind would want four more years of a felon Obama Clone?

Anemic growth, no border security, but rising debt and student loans

Too many Hampshire College students graduating into no jobs, living still at home

You don’t always get what you want, rather than to tantrums and the streets an inward moan

A nation without borders, without a flag, without a common language and shared ethics and ideals

Is not a nation, only a mass of humanity on a path to a collapse soon to be sealed

To paraphrase the song against the Vietnam War “All we are saying is give Trump a chance.”

Watch the rising tide of prosperity and security over the next four years rapidly advance

© November 23, 2016, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet