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For the last Trumpian Christmas

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Oct 26, 2023
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I'm working on a holiday song -- purely a commercial deal:

                        It  just won't seem like Christmas
                        Next year with Trump in jail.
                        There'll be a sort of hollow tone
                        To MAGA folks' wassail.

As I say, it's purely commercial for me. If I'm being honest --

            As people seem to say these days. Instead of, "To tell the honest truth" or something. "If I'm being honest . . . " The tense of it is off, isn't it? Maybe it's the new subjunctive.

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