The monsters come
behind the smile of a tangerine puppet demagogue
Promising salvation
to those he plans to harm
In a pressed suit
poof-haired sling blade,
It is not him; it is
who he is letting in
He whispers, “It is
unfair to judge so soon. Stay calm. You will not be the ones devoured.”
He will not be the
one who eats you.
Jim Crow’s crook
nose sniffs the populace
For flecks of color
to whitewash a rainbow
Snort the spectrum
into a cocaine line across the oval office desk
Leaving poor white
dust in a plowed parade of freedom
White thankfulness for
being spared, to have that bit better in an illusionary honey pot
To lick dry before
the Earth asks, “Where have all the bees gone?”
The monsters lurking
behind the nostrils are out of hiding
Obstructionism in an
octet is parlayed into fervent abandon, cookie-cutter Republicans unleashed
Paycheck to paycheck
America shivers in color-coded vibrations of fear and ecstasy
Subject to similar
razing, swaths of the alabaster perceive salvation
In the scent of
another false prophet
Jesus wrapped in a flag
crop-dusted in Cheetoes and Botox with a mashed potato chin
Propped up as Agent
Orange for change for corn fields in pain
Union towns busted
and one more degree from 21st Century dust bowl
Lebanese American
parents immigrating staring at a barricaded future
Palestine died today
Mexican roofer
wiring pay to loved ones feeling the drip through the ceiling
Libyan migrant boats
to Italy overturned in the Mediterranean
Syrian rebels left
to Putin’s thumb
Oligarchs smile at
online bank accounts
Thirty-five year old
in St. Louis remembering a twenty-something abortion
Imagining a mirrored
self overturned to no choice or a surprise forty-something uterine hijack
Sixty-eight year old
government retiree Nina on state health insurance plan
Cuts her
diabetes meds sleeping alone in the god damn Mississippi woods
Colored cut lives not
surprised, see the white wolf brown eyes have always seen
Blue eyes wake from
Sam Browback’s Kansas
Yellow brick road crumbled
when the wizard kept the gold
Lies post ballot
bubble obvious as a Deep Water Horizon dawns in America
White supremacist Viagra
got an old Tricky Dick hard again
The Gipper’s memory came
back to fonder times of Gordon Gecko
Big Short strippers
stuffed with margin call bills
Old Fashioned
Kentucky whiskey
Pissing bladder on a
pile of dead black bodies
Penis in one hand,
iPhone tweet in the other
Staring for an
updated Pfizer stock price
Don’t even look down
Corporate coffers
slept dormant set to pounce on slashed capital gains and income tax rates
To bring back cash
gerrymandered overseas awaiting the lowest potential window
To commit fraud in
trillion dollar increments
The American people
smile in the sunlight with thankful applause to the marmalade mannequin
Pennsylvania coal
miner seeing his town die, testicles folded into a disability paycheck
Wife lost her
husband to fracking’s lower natural gas prices, globalization, and climate
change
Promised a time
machine back to the era of white whale oil
Moby Dick devouring
with the machines of industry
Stuffed with
steampunk innards rigged with the bones of corrupted teamsters.
E.P.A. E.P.A.
Grandpa Simpson cried at the site of the pig.
Abrahamic tradition come due
Sacrifice your first
born onto me. I will test you; give him
our country
Gate to the globe,
god rolling dice in a casino Mr. Burns goes to Washington
I have come here to
lead, not to read. Detention camp domes
coming soon!
Caught sneaking back
in after deportation or on the no-human-beings-migrate list
Lock her up! Lock her up! Trump that Bitch! Grab that
pussy! Lynch that nigger!
Was that too
harsh? Context soft spoken, remain calm.
Put away your
twitter to let the monsters do their work.
Curb your manners to
when you think the microphone is gone.
The great death star
wall one can see the lack of empathy from outer space, ask Berlin or Jerusalem
A never-built symbol
to the universe
Harvesting
strawberries with white fingers in Neverland
Inflation in a trade
war as China’s red dragon roars
Stirs over its gold
itching to see cities burn.
Climate change
deniers obliterate what is real behind the idea that if the apocalypse is to be
God has chosen it,
so what is there to fear? Standing rock can stand down
Welcoming the
Nebraska desert with Kool-Aid and Brawndo toasts
Lake Mead and the
Yongding He and Tuhai Hu in Northern China
Two of the top five
most stressed river basins on the planet.
Drinking water in
Somalia, Nigeria, India, Malawi
Ticking math
No water, no crops,
no food equals war and survival of the richest
American air
conditioners hum in late November cackling to the sound of Arnold
Schwarzenegger
As NBC’s new
apprentice. Immigrants can be governors,
but never presidents.
Which side are you
on?
Which side are you
on?
Which side are you
on white boy?
Which side are you
on?
Poets its time, time
to step up
Get out of the echo
chamber
Face to face
conversations with the climate change denier in your life
The person who would
just rather not know, who says that is all too complicated,
Who says you think
too much; Talk to that person
The poison to our
democracy is not the politician,
but the apathy of
the masses to coddle personal ignorance
That elects the
politician.
The water is rising,
and all I did was stand there.
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