A Poem on Joe Biden and Ice Cream, by Cheryl Corey The Society April 10, 2023 Humor, Poetry 9 Comments . The King of Ice Cream in reference to recent Biden comments here. The current White House resident Is more than just the President. He’s King! The King of Ice Cream! A freezer-full of ice cream! A tragic shooting in Tennessee? He’ll get those guns away, you’ll see. In the meantime, watch him flip The script back to chocolate chip, His favorite kind of ice cream. (God wake me from this bad dream.) A real comedian, he works the crowd; He thinks he’s funny, for which he’s proud. He smirks and tells some stupid jokes; a-duh … a-duh … That’s All, Folks! . . Cheryl Corey is a Connecticut poet. She is also an author of short stories, a novella, and recently completed a novel. NOTE TO READERS: If you enjoyed this poem or other content, please consider making a donation to the Society of Classical Poets. The Society of Classical Poets does not endorse any views expressed in individual poems or commentary. CODEC Stories:Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) 9 Responses Roy Eugene Peterson April 10, 2023 How fitting! I loved it! Thank you, Cheryl! Reply Joshua C. Frank April 10, 2023 Well done, Cheryl; you’ve encapsulated everything that’s wrong with Biden in a single short poem, and with humor at that. I was horrified by this. (For reference, here’s the incident: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-president-joe-biden-makes-bizarre-ice-cream-joke-before-first-statement-on-us-school-shooting-3898694 ). Now, it’s entirely possible that Biden has gone senile and so none of this is free will. But what I notice more than anything is how apathetic many, especially on the left, are about this. Recall that just weeks before the murder of teachers and students at a Christian school in Tennessee, Jane Fonda called for the murder of pro-life people. At least the Left is consistent. Murder is apparently their solution to every problem. Don’t want to take care of the child you conceived by having sex? Murder it. Someone objects? Murder him too. Trans people don’t have enough power? Murder Christians, they’re to blame. Leftists are actually blaming Christians for the Nashville shooting. Imagine the outcry if a white person blamed black people for anti-black racism. Do you think anyone’s going to say, “Christian lives matter?” (Not that the Left actually believes any lives matter given how they push abortion.) If anyone needs any more proof that the United States is officially anti-Christian, there it is. Reply Cheryl Corey April 11, 2023 Still waiting for that manifesto, Joshua. How much do you want to bet they’ll try to memory hole it? Reply Joshua C. Frank April 11, 2023 Actually, you might say my poetry here pretty much is a manifesto. I’m not trying to overthrow the powers that be, but to help my readers decolonize their own minds. I’m under no illusions that I can stop or reverse the decline, any more than I can cure cancer, but if I can change a few lives for the better while the ship sinks, I will have done what I set out to do. Although it might be interesting to write a manifesto in verse, something like Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man… thanks for the idea. Susan Jarvis Bryant April 11, 2023 Cheryl, this would be hilarious if it wasn’t so depressingly true. I believe our governments are now mocking us… they’re letting us know with the chocolate-ice-cream-smeared face of lunacy that they’re in control and we can do sod all about it. Reply Cheryl Corey April 11, 2023 Sod? Is this your invention or a Brit expression? Is it by chance a play on another S word? Whatever, I love it. The regime provides us with just too much fodder. Every day it’s something new… Reply Geoffrey S. April 11, 2023 If Joe Biden is the King of ice cream, Nancy Pelosi is the Queen. Reply Patricia Allred April 13, 2023 Quite well written , Cheryl~humorous and for me?has pathos, too. A brainless twit, harming not only the USA but leading the world into war, as he slurps ice cream. Needs a job as a stand-up comedian…in a nursing home.,or a lockward..Your last two lines are a pefect ending. PatriciaAllred Reply Margaret Coats April 13, 2023 Cheryl, you have such a balanced approach! I understand the discourse your poem covers could be just one of numerous gaffes and misstatements made over a long period of time, or it could be evidence of senility. You do tend toward the senility explanation at the end of your poem, but you allow full play to the careless rudeness explanation as well. Either way, it’s a bad dream. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published.CommentName* Email* Website Captcha loading...In order to pass the CAPTCHA please enable JavaScript. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Δ This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Joshua C. Frank April 10, 2023 Well done, Cheryl; you’ve encapsulated everything that’s wrong with Biden in a single short poem, and with humor at that. I was horrified by this. (For reference, here’s the incident: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-president-joe-biden-makes-bizarre-ice-cream-joke-before-first-statement-on-us-school-shooting-3898694 ). Now, it’s entirely possible that Biden has gone senile and so none of this is free will. But what I notice more than anything is how apathetic many, especially on the left, are about this. Recall that just weeks before the murder of teachers and students at a Christian school in Tennessee, Jane Fonda called for the murder of pro-life people. At least the Left is consistent. Murder is apparently their solution to every problem. Don’t want to take care of the child you conceived by having sex? Murder it. Someone objects? Murder him too. Trans people don’t have enough power? Murder Christians, they’re to blame. Leftists are actually blaming Christians for the Nashville shooting. Imagine the outcry if a white person blamed black people for anti-black racism. Do you think anyone’s going to say, “Christian lives matter?” (Not that the Left actually believes any lives matter given how they push abortion.) If anyone needs any more proof that the United States is officially anti-Christian, there it is. Reply
Cheryl Corey April 11, 2023 Still waiting for that manifesto, Joshua. How much do you want to bet they’ll try to memory hole it? Reply
Joshua C. Frank April 11, 2023 Actually, you might say my poetry here pretty much is a manifesto. I’m not trying to overthrow the powers that be, but to help my readers decolonize their own minds. I’m under no illusions that I can stop or reverse the decline, any more than I can cure cancer, but if I can change a few lives for the better while the ship sinks, I will have done what I set out to do. Although it might be interesting to write a manifesto in verse, something like Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man… thanks for the idea.
Susan Jarvis Bryant April 11, 2023 Cheryl, this would be hilarious if it wasn’t so depressingly true. I believe our governments are now mocking us… they’re letting us know with the chocolate-ice-cream-smeared face of lunacy that they’re in control and we can do sod all about it. Reply
Cheryl Corey April 11, 2023 Sod? Is this your invention or a Brit expression? Is it by chance a play on another S word? Whatever, I love it. The regime provides us with just too much fodder. Every day it’s something new… Reply
Patricia Allred April 13, 2023 Quite well written , Cheryl~humorous and for me?has pathos, too. A brainless twit, harming not only the USA but leading the world into war, as he slurps ice cream. Needs a job as a stand-up comedian…in a nursing home.,or a lockward..Your last two lines are a pefect ending. PatriciaAllred Reply
Margaret Coats April 13, 2023 Cheryl, you have such a balanced approach! I understand the discourse your poem covers could be just one of numerous gaffes and misstatements made over a long period of time, or it could be evidence of senility. You do tend toward the senility explanation at the end of your poem, but you allow full play to the careless rudeness explanation as well. Either way, it’s a bad dream. Reply
