Attempting to put the current state of things in context… They’re calling it the end of everything with no sense of exaggeration or irony I feel like we’ve been here before I remember 1984 (and 2001, and 2003) We thought it would be all over then it got bad—but we survived long enough for the [...]
Tag: pessimism
Post-mortem for America (a poem)
I really must pay less attention to the news… 1 There is no feeling serene We can carve out pockets of bliss bubbles of truth and satellite sounds but we have to leave the house sometime 2 Hope was a luxury we wanted to afford a priceless artefact we felt good about owning so we [...]
The politics of division (A poem)
A small break from the pantoum. I did write one yesterday, but I like this short poem better… The way we run through here full speed you’d think we were being chased But we don’t know where we’re going the field is in disarray taken to fighting each other The house is dividing will the house [...]
