the anticipated, unnecessary future death

courtesy of AP

The oddities and offenses in American political practice are a constant source of inspiration for my poems.

One president sent bombs, jets, and drones for use by a rogue state and its murderous army,

While his successor decrees death for crimes including killing a police officer, while pardoning

Even most violent offenders of the Capitol invasion, that led to various deaths, police officer

Injuries, suicides. Now for even more horror,

The anticipated, unnecessary future death by tens of thousands, and millions, from America

Pulling out of the World Health Organization

And the Paris Climate Accords, and his threat

To take back the Panama Canal while attacking

The late President Carter whose period

Of official mourning remains in effect. I can

Go on making a list but soon everything

Will blur while I pray that somehow God

Intervenes on the right side of history

This time, Ok Deus. Show yourself

Before you too become a virtual coin, a digit,

Going bling on the desk at the Oval Office.