#political #poetry
retrodegradation
we were dreaming of sugarplums and other impossibles
when the wind picked up everything worth taking
and blew it all to hell and gone
retrodegradation
we were dreaming of sugarplums and other impossibles
when the wind picked up everything worth taking
and blew it all to hell and gone
left to weather without refreshment
the foundation’s varnish cracked
exposing rotted wood
martyrs
none of them carpenters
stepped forward to repair it
accompanied by the bloodless analysis
of parrots regurgitating acceptable shibboleths
they were cut down in the streets
the foundation’s varnish cracked
exposing rotted wood
martyrs
none of them carpenters
stepped forward to repair it
accompanied by the bloodless analysis
of parrots regurgitating acceptable shibboleths
they were cut down in the streets
in the dust of devastation our eyes splintered
unable to focus we feel our way through lawn and marble
wailing and conjecture
propaganda and piles of devalued coinage
unable to focus we feel our way through lawn and marble
wailing and conjecture
propaganda and piles of devalued coinage
greasing our souls with hope
we sing the old songs on the way
to wherever it is we're going
sure of nothing but that we breathe
© 2019 RC deWinter
Published in The Abstract Elephant Magazine @Abstract_Elphnt September 2020
we sing the old songs on the way
to wherever it is we're going
sure of nothing but that we breathe
© 2019 RC deWinter
Published in The Abstract Elephant Magazine @Abstract_Elphnt September 2020
This piece addresses the failure of the current US administration to respond to the pandemic, as well as its systematic denial of science and sidestepping of the Constitution and Rule of Law.
The lies, abandonment of responsibility and stoking of divisiveness have caused and continue to cause fear, chaos, hatred violence and death. 
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