god of the Uncanny Valley

Inspiration: CEB Isaiah 59:3-14 The lowercase "god" is deliberate in the title.

His mouth spews lies like breath

from his tongue pours a deluge of malice

he is cretinous malignity itself

he’s a mean, stupid, hypocrite

He’s a corpulent fool and charlatan

demanding facile perfection in others

delivering warped bodies and faces 

molded into Mar-a-Lago face 

Toadies act like nazis reincarnated

women molded to a creepy ideal

to look upon those dead eyed visages

is to stare into the uncanny valley

Cheering his rampaging desolation

reveling in their own degradation

as he takes, takes, takes from their pockets

all to “own the libs” and torment the stranger

His demented ocherous face 

and piss-yellow candy-floss hair

atop shambling-corpulence 

and sausage-leg cankles

This is the blasphemous godman

the worst of humanity deified

their adjudicated rapist-pedophile god

lost souls become deluded godless hordes

Author's Note

While recently scrolling through my Facebook "Memories," I was inspired by a Bible verse I had shared back during Trump's mishandling of the Pandemic. On the same day, there was also a line someone wrote on Bluesky that sparked the poem from that biblical passage: "You'll never find justice when criminals make the laws."
Another inpiration which finally codified the direction of the poem was a discussion about the so-called "uncanny valley." The uncanny valley typically refers to the phenomenon of computer-generated figures or humanoid robots with an almost-but-not-quite resemblance to a human being. It puts people off and engenders a sense of revulsion or unease. 

Our discussion was about real-world examples of actual people who give you that sense of uncanny valley. We've all met folks like that… the ones who give you the creeps. Think about the people in the Trump regime. There's something off about all of them. They just don't seem to know how to correctly human. They're more than just weird. They are living examples of the uncanny valley.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

And his pal M.J. and his comment about the Arizona woman. "Oh, Bless her Heart"---how patronizing can one get? Swear her in already. And the god...should be lower than lower case.
j.

[MomzillaNC]

Thanks, Jacob. Trump and the whole regime are uncanny valley. Yet, MAGA seems to revel in it.