JanPoWriMo 13

Hard to argue with the fact 
that everywhere you look
those in charge of interpreting
how to interpret the rules 
cavalierly allow the most 
collateral damage which almost
certainly guarantees a massive loss
of life or agency resulting in 
most people wondering how 
they are to thrive in an environment
where their existence is taken 
not only into question but for 
granted have you considered 
the virus or voting rights is just 
meant to teach us a lesson
and like every other moral system
since time memorial codified 
into books or national holidays 
everyone keeps willfully ignoring it
because it is easier to go on 
pretending the problem is not ours
to solve by making it insolvent
bankrupt exhausted demoralized
working in a system that cannot 
handle the strain it is asked to shoulder