Label and File
Ridiculous headlines
recycled lies are being published
not because a few
have found comfort in them
but because outrageous claims
have been paid for.
Hate is a commodity
truth does not create money
it’s available to anyone
who is interested.
Could you subvert your breath
into a business plan
if you translated it into a jingle
in this sanitarium of populism
this planet, colonized by cardboard cutouts?
Save your breath for inspiration
say what you love not what you hate
be the comfort that you seek
and file the work of idiots
in the cabinets of dark rejection.
Whatever you do
don’t write poems about them.
Inhale and exhale.
Relax and beware.
(from Sleep With Me: Lullaby for an Anxious Planet. Ekstasis 2020)
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