Let the warning ride forth once more:
tyranny is at our doors
No this time it’s not the same
a whole lot of stupid perpetrated in our names
Somebody somewhere is spilling the tea
don’t need to genuflect or bend a knee
Just join a march or share the pictures
read a book or listen to the lecture
We the people can throw out a president
these truths will be and remain self-evident
250 years is kind of a good ride
still haven’t gotten to the other side
Hard to know what the future will bring
except in this country: no kings
Tag: Politics
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Revere Rhyme
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Reciprocal
Divide the number of empty storefronts in my hometown
by the texture of the music shop where I bought my first drumsticks
that seemed like it had been there forever
and now will soon become a pet washing establishment
then
Divide the uninhabited islands that have been operating
at a trade deficit for centuries if not millennia apparently
by the number of penguins who might given enough time
and a typewriter devise a more coherent economic strategery
than the current administration
then
Divide the times my child has run down the hallway
of my childhood home into the arms of her grandmother
by the memories of myself at that age in the same house
running constantly through my head at any given moment
until the child and the parent and memory are one
bears repeating
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Perspective ’24
A battalion of
leaf blowers
has descended
on our townhouse
community. I’m choosing
to regard it
as a harbinger of
long deferred maintenance
on our democracy,
rather than
a potential airborne
toxic event.
Joshua Keiter 