President of the Flies

I've never seen Lord of the Flies —

I've not.

But I've heard of this comparison:

An essay titled President of the Flies

puts Donald Trump in embarrassment.

Jennifer Finney Boylan —

that's the author —

speaks of being cast into

"some cruel and hostile strand,"

a place hard to get through —

do you understand?

People with disabilities were mocked,

immigrants reviled,

and grabbing women by their private parts

was not considered being defiled

Lord of the Flies, President of the Flies —

there's a lot they have in common:

"Shut up, Piggy," "Quiet, Piggy" —

and we'd have to say a person who speaks like that

is fallen, fallen, fallen.

We live in a society in which democratic norms are lost,

cruelty is accepted,

moral decay is everywhere.

But a president who acts like this

should surely be rejected.