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Then there was the time

my 22 month old nephew 

inspected my bedroom.

He pointed to a poster

of Ronald Reagan

saying, “Da da, Da da.”

and I said, “No,

that’s not Daddy.

That’s Ronald Reagan.”

But then I paused

to consider

maybe he’s referring

to Dada art;

an early 20^th Century group

that predated surrealism.

I guess you could argue

that Reagan’s presidency

was actually a work of Dada art.

He was more violent;

a better instigator

and even harder to understand.

We need war like quotes

and a general emphasis

on all around chaos

& purity in nonsense.

A cowboy riding off

with a nuclear missile saying,

“Well, you know. . .”

I don’t remember 

what I was doing

on August 12, 1986,

do you?

and don’t even 

dredge up the Constitution.

These sacred cows

must be destroyed!

My nephew might

be onto something

Ronald Reagan may well be

The greatest dada artist ever.

Surely Breton and Tzara

are sissies 

by comparison.