Sunken
What adversity made of what substance
What percentage opportunism and emptiness
How malleable malfeasance
What level of atrocity have we
learned to find acceptable
This is a whole new border-blocked no man's land
and especially no woman's
who isn't knocked up or soon to be
Birthing blessings of rapist reflections
Bearing life even if it's a death sentence
Bundles of like-it-or-not bloody joys
for autopiloted fertile toys
Virile victimizers attacking brains like vapors
Trembling terrors turn to torpor
Modern America is decidedly dark age
Always nice to put namelessness
to a shock sunken face
Trauma is a tide that needs no reason why
Clench now and spawn without
assistance of midwife
Rinse and repeat, perpetual birthing, big bleed
It's all such a good show for redneck assemblages
Pageantry of greed inbreeds
A contest that kills and calls dying the prize
Reality conforming to trumpier and trumpier lies
How howling mad to think this wholesome
How horror tinged, how hued by Hell
Lady Liberty mad mobbed and violated where she fell
Now each and every one of us might as well be
the trailer park tankhead toppling over into
NASCAR neo Nazi deathbed
Priding in our profound purpose of
plain as day persecution
Every sicko sicced on a minority
a shining soldier saluted
Best our broken shards not bother
asking what it says about any of us
that we watched patriotism’s poisoned pyre
and didn't try to be antidotes hard enough
It's the darkest timeline inescapable
It's the fascist kind of fucked
Freedom is for insurrectionists and their president
Bashing journalist heads and spilling activist guts
The laugh track is automatic
It's what the autocrat and his
billionaire henchman expect of us
Sharing laughter at unshared sacrifice
Corpses never stack high enough