photo  courtesy of  Google and the artist

drawing malevolent throngs

scornful, suspicious, vacuous:

and while reactionaries disguised as patriots hail yet another tyrant

surrendering to their ankle-deep universe,

uncertain republics must regurgitate yet more last suppers

another legacy patches these skies:

one written with long buried dire,

emaciated fascist outcries recorded times past

then as now nations must brave these pompous jefes,

werewolfs parcelling proclamations delivered centuries ago

ignoring modest string and paper questions,

instead glorifying their sanguinary tainted boxes

containing leftover scoundrels posing as gifters,

pimping more tattered wedding shoes unlaced,

distaining

rejecting

disembodied bouquets of hope,

discarding them all into history’s despotic ruins

another cloaked legacy

ravages

plunders

and festers our world,

thriving between the cracks in the darknesses,

fondled and resuscitated by adoring sycophants and groupies with guns:

another masqueraded patrimony 

this one now moored

violating our venerated shores

Maricopa, Arizona

February 2, 2020