"Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the time, / City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime?"
- Tennyson (quoted by Jack London, 1903) via @celticstoic.bsky.social
The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll.
is the Constitution only
a parable for lonely
dissenters to arraign?
our officials put initials
to a promise that's delicious
as a rainbow in the rain
humans are evolving
to a pinnacle involving
keeping promises not vague
which is why when this shit ravels
i expect to see the travels
of DeSantis to the Hague
DeSantis in the docket
who will claim he's just one sprocket
of a wider tragic chain
building Alligator Auschwitz
—already some can vouch its
hungry teeth on their domain—
but the Constitution matters
not a king whose fandom flatters
his insatiable demands
i want this den of gangsters
paying dearly for our anxious
daily scroll with shaking hands
& i'll see that grinning bigot
drinking payback from the spigot
in his own mosquito lands
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