A bruised sky looming
Black tinged and brushed with purple
Pink blossoms stare up
Incandescent
Mouths open, waiting for rain
The sky takes a breath
And the bruise darkens
Droplets slip down the window
Tracing tears on the glass
Angry, the clouds harden
Tears change to sideways torrents
Drowning the flowers
Crawling into work
The sky stretching over me
Blue and crisp and cold
Bathing the mountains
In its icy teal beauty
It’s mundanity
Makes it all more beautiful
But…I creep inside
If you ever barf
In a Disneyland bathroom
I highly suggest
Barfing in the one
Before the jungle cruise
Near the tiki room
It has a “hidden”
Lane on the far left wall
For privacy on
Your land of adventure
States are banning books
900,000 are dead
Now, the GOP
Have, of course, declared
Events of January 6
“Legitimate discourse”
2024
Is barreling fast toward us
A darkness is brewing
A darkness is brewing
Blistering morning
Snow soaking our clothes like rain
Car covered in ice
We step, bleary eyed
Sleep floating off our bodies
In the bitter cold
And pretend to go along
As a normal day
Sometimes it’s so hard
To keep fighting for your “dreams”
And, as I get old
It’s, increasingly
More difficult, yet urgent
To feel accomplished
Please don’t get me wrong
I am very privileged
I understand that
But, I also feel
That I always come up short
Destined to only
Stand just to the side
While others take the spotlight
It’s…disheartening.
You know what’s wild?
When a lack of mitigation
Leads to a case rise.
It’s almost as though
We could have seen it coming
Oh wait…we did see.
Instead choosing to do nothing
And now cases rise.
One quarter absent
Yesterday at my school
What do I do with that?
Teachers are so so tired
Because…we told you so.
The stockings were hung
And presents were wrapped days past
For blended Christmas
For divorced parents
And their kids for that matter
Christmas is flowing
Could be 25th
But usually it’s another
Always with family
And rising
800,000
The number of people lost
In the pandemic
Double World War Two
Almost triple World War One
These are civilians
Selfishness led here
American pride and greed
Is this “real” freedom?
We are held captive
Capitalism brought down
Because a virus
And…of course…because
Some refuse to help others
…get vaccinated.
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