FOR THOSE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ISSUES OR THE WRONG

 

FOR THOSE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE ISSUES OR THE WRONG

For those on the right side of the issues or the wrong

Whatever common cause you can muster

Who let the children starve

For want of fairy tales or a kind word who

In the end believe in the diminishment of Light

And worship the sun of themselves

Their particular orbit their families listed

In all the blue registers or noted for their disdain of such

Well kept lawns in the hither and thither of the world

What kind of poems should we write

And fit into the white nights surpluses of beauty

Unattributed to the Creator

So as to be acceptable redistricted poets

In compliance with the zoning laws

All issues fly over the history of the darkening world

like blue bottle flies in a jam sticky summer

Like paper airplanes not worth your pin money, 

Your last jar of acacia honey

The cold we felt the hunger

For immortality derided.

For the soul made into a ballot box

a consumer spending index, a plethora of artificially

induced heart rates

I for sure, have no words at all.

mary angela douglas 1 june 2024