23 September 2025
Since it’s raining making a new chalk labyrinth
doesn’t make much sense when making sense
is using nuclear weapons to blow up a big rock
drifting in orbit that might obliterate the moon
To spray dust and debris into “our own” satellites
in orbit around “our” Earth where now the MAGA
cult of patriarchal white personality is this crazed
mob sure, absolutely certain that the Rapture today
Tuesday the 23rd of September will swish to whisk
away the the saved leaving all the west rest of us
radical left behind staring down the double barrels
of not one but two 3 & ½ year intervals of a doom
And devilish destruction of famine and pestilence,
war and that skull-headed hard rider named death
mortal pale horse revelations antediluvian rising
tide of high water overflow all round desertification
Dust swept in hurricanes across those great oceans
from dust you came and to dust you so quick return
in spinning vortex of tornado we still spin spin spin
spin it out-spin it in: concentric circle labyrinth spiral.
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.