With apologies to Wallace Stevens
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird
With no apologies to Donald Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/us/politics/trump-interview-excerpts.html
I.
Among Republicans and Democrats
Virtually every one has said there is
No collusion.
There’s been
No collusion.
Everybody knows the answer already.
There was
No collusion.
II.
They walk around blinking at each other.
I have no expectation.
I can only tell you that there is absolutely
No collusion.
III.
A hoax,
A ruse
A made-up problem
An excuse for losing an election
IV.
A Democrat and a Republican
Are one.
A Democrat and a Republican and Collusion
Are one
A Lover’s Quarrel, Lindsey Kustusch
V.
I do not know which to prefer
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes
That there was
Collusion
Or that there was
No collusion
VI.
I saw Dianne Feinstein the other day on television, she said,
There is
No collusion.
Line of Flight, Sarah Yeoman
VII.
I watched Alan Dershowitz the other day, he said,
Number 1, there is
No collusion,
Number 2, collusion is not a crime,
But even if it was a crime, there was
No collusion.
There is
No collusion
And even if there was, it’s not a crime.
But there’s
No collusion.
VIII.
The Republicans, in terms of the House committees,
They come out,
They’re so angry
Because there is
No collusion.
What Is Gathered Will Disperse, Lindsey Kustusch
IX.
Every Democrat is saying it
Frankly there is absolutely
No collusion
That’s been proven
There is
No collusion.
What Is Moving Will Be Still, Lindsey Kustusch
X.
The congressmen have been unbelievable in pointing out what a
Witch hunt the whole thing is.
So, I think it’s been proven that there is
No collusion.
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XI.
But
There is tremendous collusion
Including all of the stuff with the —
And then whatever happened to the Pakistani guy, that had the two,
You know,
whatever happened to this Pakistani guy?
Whatever happened to him?
Whatever happened
With the two servers that they broke up into a million pieces?
That was a big story
XII.
It makes the country look bad
It makes the country look very bad
It puts the country in a very bad position.
Crow Study II, Sarah Yeoman
XIII.
There was collusion and there was no collusion
There was tremendous collusion
And there was no collusion
You know, we hear bullshit from the Democrats
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