your armchair activism

has lost its stuffing
nothing left to soften the real
yet we look everyday
self-reflection
words of sages
distorted but still cognitive
a broken mirror can be a message
in itself

--- e b bortz

a speech

the other night
by a president
carpet-bombed guernica
again

we mute the sound
let the children
sleep
bach bourree segovia

--- e b bortz