Horrors that morons chose begin now.
Flag-draped walls are closing in now.
Whales sleep vertically, holding their breath.
Stars blink on. Hungry birds cry Ruin. Now
Artemis is running out of arrows.
Progress cut off like a foreskin. Now
the virus-spreading chickens have flown home
to roost. We bury the beached dolphin now.
In Yiddish, “vance” is “bedbug.” Pols twist words
like dishtowels. Empathy is sin now.
Chainsaws screech in the forests. Veterans starve.
Chained migrants dumped elsewhere. Rich men win now.
There’s enough suffering to go around.
Stop the Pain Olympics – class vs. skin. Now
the app to change his face into kittens
stops working. Everywhere his weasel grin now.
Ashen with shock, our faces prohibit
pleasantries. Don’t ask How have you been? now.
My mother stays dead. My father rots in
his red hat. The cult owns half my kin now.
Countries can crack like eggs, can harden to
stone ramparts. Who’s locked out, who’s locked in now?