Thursday, August 17, 2017

When All Has Been Said

If you’ve got nothing more to say the least you can do is to shut up. So said Tom Lehrer.  This is me with nothing to say and yet ………


Standing aghast at the wreckage of America.
Anymore Breaking News feels redundant.
We have been violated
by one consenting adult (as in adulterated).
Call it rapacity.
There are stains on our fabric.
He is our grotesque mirror of mindlessness.
We must not turn away
from the noose and lashes,
from past covenants, quotas and deportees.
He has unleashed the feral beast
where the grapes of wrath are stored.
We need him unscripted, without clothes
to see ourselves naked,
to listen to his rants and blurts
in order to wake our own deaf ears,
to know civility again,
to end this Civil War
within.



2 comments:

  1. Thank you, Norm, he is our grotesque mirror of mindlessness and he has unleashed the feral beast where the grapes of wrath are stored. I hope having all of this hidden hatred out in the open will help to end this Civil War.
    Norm, you are brilliant and another brilliant person is Daryl Davis. If you haven't heard him speak please google Meet the Black Blues Musician Who Befriended the KKK. He is an amazing person. I've heard him interviewed twice on KPCC and I am always astounded.

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