FACTUAL
LIFE IN A POST-FACTUAL WORLD
There is a giant crack when scapula rotated
Heard beyond the membranes separating
poet from world at large Permeable membranes
Too diffuse for words which escape into the
atmosphere where judges judge +do not send
grant money
These poems these words trouble +have caused
jurors tingling in hands+feet vertigo +diarrhea Today
words chronicle the fall of Aleppo: a meltdown of humanity
Not enough sunshine for the many No canned laughter with
this poetry
Aleppo Giant gutted Gehry Twisted tatters of buildings splayed
Gaping holes in concrete Skin of civilians flayed Al Assad friend
of Russia +Iran by proxy Trumpnation? Sent troops into homes
killing women+children willy nilly
Canada trying to mobilize UN General assembly to: Take action
on Syria This as new PM shamelessly panders to wealthy Maoists
in mansions across the land Words fail to bring grant $ +uplift
the lumpen proletariat So long in breadlines +fodder for tanks they’re
voting for snake oil neo-right
Now resurrecting words like: Umvolkung (ethnic conversion) Volkisch
(racially pure state) +concentration camp Soon kike In the 21st C
no one gives a damn about the Nazi era The future belongs to patriots
Many Germans simply fear that by 2040, Germany will be like a Third
World country which doesn’t consist mostly of white people –
(Ronal Glaser Berlin based politician)
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Baby I’ve been down, but never this down
I’ve been lost, but never this lost.
Bruce Springsteen
(December 14, 2016)
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