MayPoWriMo 12

There’s a run on gasoline 
everyone’s filling up plastic bags with the stuff 
in such short supply 
for maybe the next few days 

Another war in the Middle East 
so predictable which side suffers more losses
what did you think 
this shit runs like clockwork 

Listening to NPR has taught me 
there is such a thing as a third ranking
leader in the people’s house 
truly the next victim of cancel culture 

In the final couplet images are correlated 
except in this instance I got nothing