Scandal on scandals snowball down the devolving system
to flood the already overflowing red tide swamp of death
deoxygenated in the depths of tyrannicide in the peat bog
burial of failed rule the perpetrators all say: “I do not care”
while the enablers say: “we’ll protect you next time” again
and again impeachment is off the table and we’re all just a
bunch of idiots just for thinking a single thought of justice
“that is not fair” so we’re as simple as preliterate children
while they display the great complication called hate still
we can remember “that Great Society” which we now find
was the watchword of the Commons rising when the people
got together, and, of course, always knew almost without a
thought we need those someones with their hands on those
institutions of power who just like now continue to do every-
thing possible to maintain that same old lamestream system
of the Slime-Ball-in-Chief even as he so persists in breaking
all their phony rules that obviously only apply to all of us:
with that slimeball rolling around in the white house all day
and sometimes all night long a horrible sound like rolling
marbles on the constitutional floor and then the bodies, oh,
the poor broken bodies that keep popping up in such great
big global Current Age ALL ONE THING swampy acid bog.
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.