1.
My husband he saw an article about his

hometown in The New York Times

                                                      Donald, Victoria, Australia

                                                               Population 1498
I google Donald, New York Times

he is backseat googling behind me

telling me no google New York Donald Donald Australia Donald articles

                                                                               we are driving far from where we want to be

we see                Down the rabbit hole with Donald

                                                                                                   Donald Trump just can’t help it

                                            The People vs Donald Trump

                                                          Celebrities react negatively to Donald Trump’s shutdown
Where is my Donald the broken biscuits the

                                                                       pessimistic farmers the nursing home round the

                                                                                                                                            corner the

slow roads 
2.
When I am feeling sad sometimes I google

                                              Donald Trump New York Times the

habit started during the primaries

and I haven’t broken it

it soothes me to feel the predictable contours

of surprise unsurprise outrage fatigue

the completeness of my knowledge of the world

the world is anywhere but here

I wake up from my reading feeling

cleansed of bad emotions and guilty

for going back to him 
3.
I am having lunch in Savannah, Georgia

on the fifteenth floor of a hotel

this is the world to a girl born on a big boring island

floating at the bottom of the map

a lady dressed in pink and gold angles

speaks to the American people with black-lined eyes

why do you think he knows you

how do you think he knows you

this man who grew up in a house that that that

this man who grew up in a family had had had 
she tells me I got my citizenship after I saw him

campaigning on tv I had been putting it off

but then I thought no

I am from Egypt and there have been two dictators since I left

and the current one has changed the constitution

to say he can rule till 2030
4.
I give my supervisor discounted flowers

for a baby big inside her belly

there is no metaphor and no simile

I can make for this it is

too beautiful a baby just as it is
she says what are these

I say I dropped the flowers on the way here

this is true but it is untrue that it was the fall

that made them look like yesterday

these white-yellow cones of dense petals sloping sideways

they looked like that when I pulled them dripping from the bucket 
she says she likes them like

like Donald Trump’s hair she says

thank you for this

and here he is

again in my flowers I thought

I kept myself pure from him how

can I keep myself pure from him