Portrait of Justice

Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)

May 1, 2025

Congrats---you secured Shedeur Sanders in the draft
While our economy tanked and the whole world laughed
Thanks---you're always right
You supersede sound judgment with sound bites
You keep talkin' of kickoff returns
Yet you conceal your tax returns
You're Eric Cartman meets Mr. Burns
Who's gonna protect women from the predator that protects women?
The conscientious Christian still spews such venom
And Saquon may respect the Presidency
But you don't, evidently.

Written by JC Hughes (aka C Hues)

May 1, 2025

Your insurance says they got you covered
Well, sure---unless you're black, poor, and othered
Amazing, and another account's "severely delinquent"
Yet they rob you and make harassment frequent
And scare you over pennies, dimes, and quarters
So, sue and get your court orders
Oh shit---Labcorp comes to collect
Over ten dollars that will make them wealthy yet
And then you go to the doc and get overbooked
Or go to urgent care and get overlooked
Being black brings invisibility
As healthcare makes you sicker and filled with enmity
Good golly, they sure take care of you
Before your death, they add stress to bury you.

Written by C Hues

April 7, 2025

Land of the free that forgets slaves
Talk the truth and dig your graves
Each good deed gets just reward
Live by the pen; die by the sword.

Oppress The Press to silence
Any truth against the tyrants
34 felonies, need any more?
Add sex abuse, give Trump the floor.

Black President's clean, but black's a germ
And they've made that his greatest crime
He already got a second term---
There won't be a second time.

Written by C Hues

April 7, 2025

Dolphins, corvids, and great apes won't fail
We extirpate Earth---and then taunt and jest
Burn the planet; preach of Hell
We ain't pass the mirror test.

An animal protects its place
It knows in its sagacious mind
Us Ubermensch, the human race
We over-farm, destroy, and bind.

And thus we are the greatest
A speck in time---yet so supreme
If heaven had a waitlist
We wouldn't make it in a dream.

Written by C Hues

April 1, 2025

Black bodies been beaten, but beat the torture
Hide Hemings, Celia, Recy Taylor
Make full from what is half and quarter
Erase the white man's moral failure.

Old World Chaos is New World Order
We serve as soldier, sniper, sailor
Transformed tobacco to brick-and-mortar
The blacker mind, the future paler. 

Written by C Hues

April 1, 2025

The Third Term's to not be won
King Trump needs no election
What's undue won't be undone
Ego---no introspection.

Just as Washington wanted
Power-hungry losers reign
Ensure that Hunter's hunted
While sex abuse is Trump's gain.

Written by C Hues

March 4, 2025

Interracial integration in the segregated South--
Atrocious actions denied word of mouth.
Just jezebels, jokes, and jinxes at the claws of Jim Crow,
Yet the Eagle never flew, in fact---it's taught to lay low.
And a Founding Father fathered many lost descendants---
While the traces of our roots remain withered remnants.
You see your cousins uncovered with science;
Despite DNA---your whole world is defiance.

Written by C Hues

March 4, 2025

Named for 23, she won Gold at 23
The smallest Giant, flying forever free
You can deny her a bronze medal
But can't deny her iron mettle

Her floor routine is anything but
She has no ceiling, see her seamlessly strut
Stellar, sassy, super-strong
Jordan Chiles, yes, YOU belong.

Written by C Hues

March 3, 2025

And the Oscar goes to Trump the tyrant.
We've witnessed this film---went through every lie, rant...
Acting as if you hate to hate.
Again, antagonism and lies must make America great.
Acting as if Russia's really our friend.
Acting as if you've got no money to spend
When it comes to helping poor people---
Yet you scam college kids to feed your ego.
Acting as if climate change is a hoax.
Acting as if true Christians love to fire folks.
Acting as if assault and abuse against women is cool.
Acting as if you're so intelligent, fool.
You won with an aura that's so wicked.
Golly gee, genius---that's the price of the ticket.

Written by C Hues

March 1, 2025

Trump's little lapdog
Has become an attack dog...
Lying loyally;
Lying by his master's side---
Far from the hungry Haitians.

He's yapping at Zelenskyy---
While his owner won't own up
To the truth; that's clear.
If Ukraine started the war,
Then Trump is a brain surgeon.