Literary Corner: The Brain Is Much More Important

The poet on the art of attracting crowds

Max Ernst, Saint Cecilia (Invisible Piano), 1923, via WikiArt, and one of my favorite Trump poems, from 2018:

Elton has an organ

by Donald J. Trump

I. I Have Broken More Elton John Records

He seems to have a lot of records.
And I, by the way, I don’t
have a musical instrument. I don’t
have a guitar or an organ.
No organ. Elton has an organ.
And lots of other people helping.
No, we’ve broken a lot of records.
We’ve broken virtually every record.

II. Because, You Know, Look

I only need this space.
They need much more room.
For basketball, for hockey and all
of the sports, they need a lot of room.
We don’t need it. We have people
in that space. So we break all
of these records. Really we do it
without like, the musical instruments.

III. This Is the Only Musical: the Mouth

And hopefully the brain attached
to the mouth. Right? The brain,
more important than the mouth, is the
brain. The brain is much more important.