the supremes ain’t so supreme anymore
unless it’s their so supremely delusional
thinking they can just pass off as, oh just
their water carrying for the old oligarchs
who for some very peculiar deadly reasons
want us all to be able to shoot just as many
bullets as possible and just as inaccurately
as possible as fast as it is ever so possible
to take out a whole classroom full of kids
or a store full of black or brown people or
a church or a synagogue or a mosque full
of people praying while at the very same
time nullify another of those pesky agencies
supposed to protect the people from, oh, no,
those very same oligarchs and their C.E.O.’s
how much can they take from us after all?
James Van Looy has been a fixture in Boston’s poetry venues since the 1970s. He is a member of Cosmic Spelunker Theater and has run poetry workshops for Boston area homeless people at Pine Street Inn and St. Francis House since 1992. Van Looy leads the Labyrinth Creative Movement Workshop, which his Labyrinth titled poems are based on. His work appears weekly in Oddball Magazine.