New Poem: LITTLE STEVIE KEEPS ORDER AS THE HOUSE BURNS DOWN

 no politics either way

 no causes no sir no ma’am 

 just poetry on my Meta site

 and absolutely no posts or e-mail

 irritating me about Meta embracing Trump

 and my being on a Meta site ignoring all of this 

New Poem: THE YOUNG PERSON’S VACCINE AVOIDANCE HAIKU

 I don’t need it No

 I don’t want it Don’t Need It

 How did I get sick

New Poem: WHY WE ARE STILL FAR FROM NORMAL

 getting too used to rebellion against common science 

 battle whine of I won’t live this way

 getting too used to not caring about others suffering

 no tears shed for the dying with only health care workers 

 being the ones to see them off prematurely

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you’ll go ahead and invite your friends over

for a mask free living room jamboree 

and snicker at the roommate who shelters in a motel

so he won’t risk missing work and losing pay

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the long cold winter is coming

the end of this poem can only be written by you

New Poem: ANOTHER STATE OF OUR NATION

we luxuriate in insulation from reality

confident of being too rich and/or too white

to suffer from separation of families,

raids by police or ICE,

imprisonment in various kinds of holding areas

once known as concentration camps

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we don’t talk much about impeachment 

in our crisp four-dimensional suburb

except to regard it as mere gnat buzz

because it’s more important 

to complain on social media

that Robert Pattinson as Batman

or the final season of GAME OF THRONES 

should be overruled, nullified, invalidated

while the dangerous President 

is allowed to finish his term

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reality doesn’t suit our lifestyle