The Worst Amendment

This could not be more Orwellian.

Simon & Schuster is cancelling my book.

Where a business-flyer otherwise would look

for such civics, now shelves the Machiavellian

secrets of the boardroom, or Hudson’s selling him

mere Mentos. The woke mob won’t brook

my bold dissent. Why? Because I took

my voters’ insurrectionary whim

seriously? My job is to ventriloquize

exactly what the lumpen want to hear,

smuggling their sordid gripes into the fort-

ress of power with my Yale mouth and dead eyes,

alchemizing gripes into career.

This aggression will not stand. See you in court.