We’ve finally got them all in one place: the Zionists and apocalyptic
theocrats,
the free market fundamentalists and their fossil-fueled flat Earth
fracked buds,
the shadowy banksters and their dark side generals all so fully
gathered together
in their ghost dance resurrection of the last counter-revolution, the
White Army
ready for the final Armageddon battle with the insurgents, the Reds,
the yellow
peril, the savages and the animals, of course, Life its very self
all set to be taken,
used, abused, sacrificed to the Holy City on a Hill, actually the
old White House
(still built by black people) the Republic (not a democracy),
not the people, those
people so far below on the ground, swirling around are expected
to watch all them
the craven cabal as if it’s just another crazy conspiracy theory,
another disturbing
early morning nightmare up in the air, way above them all polar
vortex from thaw
of North Pole that keeps breaking down and spilling icy blasts
between unseason-
able warming all down through the center of the continent as more
and more of us
cling to the coasts sent there from the deep of the far middle
by mass migrations
of death of whole industries and bitter ends of their way of life
while perpetrators,
crooks and criminals are way above it all looking down at all of
us (the U.S.) in a
great grandee ghost dance of military fiscal madness that will never,
ever in anyway
Make America Great Again (like it ever was?) but we’ve got them all together again
in one place.
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.