Trump Love (Take Three)

Still learning to love Trump, y’all — for realz! (Take Three)

I imagine more than half of y’all was sick of this tune after the first pass. I notice the “likes” dropping. I’mma be real. I know there’s full on terror the man. Don’t even front. You the main one started the tape you play in your head every time somebody challenge you to think about something done made up your mind about, ‘cause you know everything already. This one’s for you more than anybody. I’ll be sad to see you go (but not really really sad).

I’m walking along the river in Chicago wit’ my bestie, watchin’ the hotties run by on the low. My bestie is a sucker for a ice ass I’m not gonna lie. We are like Karma served to man meat as revenge for all the women who ever been cat hollered in the street. We do our part for that pay back. Anyway, we get past Wabash and, looking down on us in typical boisterous ass-ness, is TRUMP hanging off the side a really big (and pretty fucking nice) building. Collective moan. It was a really nice building though. When you got all the money you can pay the finest architect to help you so decadently blot out the sky and dominate the skyline.

Instead o’ bitching, I took my bestie by the hand and we popped a squat on the river walk and said a prayer. We prayed for Donald Trump. I prayed Donald Trump would have an experience of love in his heart would lead him to express a loving idea. One tweet to raise my spirit and other people. I hoped that the loving idea might spread and do some good in the world. I think that’s a useful AF thing to do. I sure AF don’t like the thought the President of the United States walking around a heart filled with hatred...or worse, fear.

I’ve had hatred directed at me. You ain’t lived ‘til your name in print followed by the phrase “should be run out on a rail.” Just recent, behind some shit I wrote about queerness being evolutionary, a frigging stranger tried to get my ass fired from my job. The people took those hateful measures against me, just knew they was justified in they actions. They ain’t give it a second thought. Hatred’s infected our society to the point I don’t believe a lot of folks know where they own hatred leave off and the “evil” they target with they hate begin.

When I roll with love, I know where I fucking start. I know my fucking impact (or powerlessness), ‘cause the evil either get transformed, or it don’t. When I come with hate, don’t nothing change. I don’t expect it to. When I check Trump’s daily tweets and see him celebrating a peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to chill the fuck out, I can puff out my chest a little bit. That happened and I never would o’ noticed except I had been looking for it.

I don’t know. I’mma keep trying, though.