difficult years
back in the 1930's
world depression
those dirty 30's
so many political fears
bowls of dust
stealing away hope
streams of sad tears
migrating
climate change
more encroaching desert
2021
this approaching decade
reproachable political fraud
a dust bowl
so many eerie fears
1936
bold Hitler
that third reich
inciting old violence
that bold clenched fist
evening into night
world pressure
that nazi seizure
a moonlight reasoning
brown and blue shirts
a fascist tryst
those deranged years
changing gears
invoking
a storm of critical change
update
2021
odd peachy keen
add viral toppings  
severe pandemic fears
bringing out the dead
standup improv
morgues and morals
improv victim storage
taking it to the streets
cool and the gang
avenues of refrigeration
all those covid dead
winter in frigid January
2021
hoar frost
winter horror fest
Nero is fiddling
playing with himself
from what they've said
plucking
cat gut strings
tweeting gutting verbs
poetic Rome is burning
terror pact
riot impact
legal stead
regal plots
ignite signal fires
giving Blotto matches
he'll surely light towering infernos
flaming publican spires
mucking up atmosphere
sucking up oxygen
if the sky doesn't suddenly turn to fire
while the fetching sun still comes up
maybe
we'll survive
suffer this historic weather
endure all this overwhelming
bitching
enriched memories from 2020
grief and disbelief
stitching us up
still there are heroes
those superhuman
reaching out
singing angels
saving lives
compassion
help us
we're learning
yearning still
there are dark days ahead
tragic storms
we must navigate
turbulent waters
we must overcome
this ripping tide
arrest difficulties
lest brimstone and fire consume us
weather this present norm
so tempests don't drown us
whether people isolate
or swept away
continuance
we prisoners
at times flailing
like bawling cattle
hurried into perilous canyons
segregating biology
abandoning the world
ecology decimated
struggling we toil
where nightmares abound
roiling maelstroms
we are fearful
shackled
bound and confined
we seem to be awake
but everyone is tired
emotionally recoiling
everyone is struggling
environmentally sick
repressed and beaten
covid-19
a harsh depressing stick
pandemic paintings
tainting every political insurrection
more tug and thug insurgence
what quality of life
harangued by covid-19's emergence
another month long quarantine
another unforeseen quantity
death ahead
while the qualitative world blinks
quoting quantitative viral re-emergence
tread carefully
caught up by mutation
swept away in this respondent sea
head just above water
gulping injustice and chartered air
on the careless threshold
of reckless battles
feckless digital war
jungle drums pounding
mustering subjugated arms
denial passed into sweaty hands
commending angry insurgents
fingers and digits
firmly on buttons and triggers
guns emerging
automatic violence
we the violated
vacillating
vaccinating
vindicated communities
still
this corona virus
mocks us
still talking
mocking politics
haunting us
media directors
still balking
unhinged dictators
taunt us
solar events
sunrise to sunset
after the dark sets in
recording astronomical history
during the dirty 30's
blistered people
were borderline and yearning
most times definably hurting
existence
refined dust bowl life
repellent chaos and striking mystery
like appellant resistance
sightless balancing
on a keen edged knife
authority's commissary
dialects of public misery

 

  

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