Wednesday, March 25, 2026

New Poem: STUCK IN A WAR YOU CAN’T GET OUT OF

 you haven’t been shot or stabbed or drone bombed

 because it’s enough to watch the curated highlights 

 behind the safety of the resolute desk

 keep lying to get through each quicksand day

 yammer out fifteen-point plans and demands for abject surrender

 those things don’t work with angry theocrats 

 willing to murder their own citizens in the streets

 (in far greater numbers than Stephen Miller’s ICE corps)

 and transport their rage to other parts of the Middle East 

 but, hey, you carved a deep scar

 onto the surface of the world stage

 and discovered the dogs of war you let slip

 won’t return immediately after you call them 


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