Second Coming No. 461 — April 25, 2026
A poem-a-day protest against the threat posed to our democracy by Donald Trump and his fascist regime
Chad Parenteau
Trump Sitting Above a Pile of Bones in Palm Beach, Florida
Above me, everything
I don’t own yet.
I used up your life.
I used up your life too.
I used up his life.
I used up her life.
I used up her life too.
I used up their lives.
I used up all those lives too.
Their lives weren’t much.
I used up a lot of weak lives.
Stop wasting your life.
I’ll use it if you aren’t going to.
Chad Parenteau is the author most recently of the poetry collection Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts (independent, 2024) and the chapbook All’s Well Isn’t You (independent, 2024). His poems have appeared in Résonance, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, and other journals, as well as in anthologies including Reimagine America: An Anthology for the Future (Vagabond, 2022). Parenteau lives in Boston, where he hosts the Stone Soup Poetry series, co-organizes the annual Boston Poetry Marathon, and serves as associate editor of Oddball Magazine.
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This poem is on target and appreciated!!!
Chad Parenteau's poem is not kidding.