Thursday, April 11, 2019

there's no comfort in my naivete


take my coffee black
with the clarity of a newly photographed
     black hole
     calculated and scribbled from einstein hands
even as the sweatshop jackboots go stomping
     across the planet
a planet on the verge of falling out of orbit
in flood or fire
already long past 1984 orwell
just consider all of this
     the re-elected of the corrupted
     the arrest of the whistleblower
     the children lost on phony borders
     the theft of the body
          but not the soul

--- e b bortz

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