What Republicans Remember—Murfin Verse Redux—National Poetry Month 2026

                     

                                      Lincoln at his desk engraved by John Sartain from a photograph by Ferdinand Thomas Lee Boyle.                          

Six years ago now a MAGA Republicans scrambled to the tune piped by the Cheeto-in-Charge to justify what became a plot to kidnap the Governor of Michigan.  A hiccup on the trail of his depredations but shocking at the time.  Neither the mad felon in the White House or his sycophant accomplices in Congress have gotten any better 

The Old Man committed poetry. about it in 2020.

                                                            Republicans Remember

Headline:  Trump’s ‘LIBERATE MICHIGAN!’ Tweets Incite Insurrection

April 17, 2020

 

Ah yes, they remember it well—

            That time ol’ Abe sitting idly in the White House,

            his feet up on the desk petting a cat

            as Willy and Tad cavorted on the carpet

            with their goat

            scrawled a message and handed it

            to young John Hay

            to hustle over to the telegraph office

            at the War Department.

 

General Beauregard

Charleston, South Carolina

April 11, 1861

 

Sir—

            I share your outrage that the tyrannical Federal Government

            appears determined to squash your liberties stop

            Arms and reinforcements from New York for Ft. Sumter

            aboard the Star of the West were a knife

            at your noble throats stop

            Eighty five jack booted thugs

            refuse to hand over the fortress stop

            LIBERATE SOUTH CAROLINA!

            Defend your Second Amendment Rights!

            Death to the Tyrants!

            To Arms! To Arms! stop

 

A.    A. Lincoln

The President’s House

Washington

District of Columbia

 

Yep, that’s just what happened.

            Ask any patriot.

 

—Patrick Murfin

 

The Bombardment of Ft. Sumner  by Courier and Ives.