Wednesday, 23 September 2020

The Supreme Court



(for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020.)


How quietly she sits in judgment

fully qualified eyes open

watching the work of men

corrupt the world again to make us empty headed

re-fill the space with bullets of hate 

for all that is flesh and turn it into steel

trashing heroes and prophets of old


she knows 

you can't create a new world on anger

and all the poets weeping over sculpted manifestos 

cannot kill plastic bankers so dead to this world

they think they will live forever


—they won't but you will.

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