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