Someone painted the face of evil

with the exposed brain

(or what looks like the exposed brain)

of a Predator, thinly camouflaged with hair,

dyed blond, swept back and patted down

like the pompadour roof of a tongkonan,

where Torajas keep the dead before their burial.

Someone said the face has eyes almost blue

like the Night King, however,

with puffy under-eye bags, veined and greyish,

it looks more like a four-eyed monster.

The nose of a pig would suit it better

than the nose of a WASP.

But worst of all is the mouth, always twisting,

in scorn, in derision, in rage, in hate,

spewing out a lava flow of lies:

‘War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength,’

climate change is a Chinese hoax,

nuclear arms are lucrative deals,

windmills cause cancer,

unsavoury truths are fake news,

and on and on…
The face of evil is not

‘a cancer on … democracy’;

it is not

‘a cancer on the presidency’;

such a face is the beginning

of the end of us all.