04-30-2021, 10:20 AM
2020-Blind
At first we laughed
and called that year
“the one with eyes” –
twenty-twenty, geddit?
What we got instead
was running full-speed blind
into a catastrophe
and before it was handled
or even understood
punch-drunk smack into the next.
In the abstract each–
the virus
the video–
was predictable
as a thing that could occur
even how they were exploited
by those with ill intent–
false claims of racism
rioting encouraged
economic asphyxiation
vote-count shenanigans–
were sitting plain on deck
in the anarcho-fascist’s bullpen.
But instead of seeing them
we hit them one by one
and all together
plowing ahead at sixty minutes an hour
seven days a week
blind with all warnings
suppressed, derided, silenced
by those who willed destruction
for their crass benefit.
The year with eyes did not begin
with rose-colored spectacles
but it ended in eyes
blinded by blood.
At first we laughed
and called that year
“the one with eyes” –
twenty-twenty, geddit?
What we got instead
was running full-speed blind
into a catastrophe
and before it was handled
or even understood
punch-drunk smack into the next.
In the abstract each–
the virus
the video–
was predictable
as a thing that could occur
even how they were exploited
by those with ill intent–
false claims of racism
rioting encouraged
economic asphyxiation
vote-count shenanigans–
were sitting plain on deck
in the anarcho-fascist’s bullpen.
But instead of seeing them
we hit them one by one
and all together
plowing ahead at sixty minutes an hour
seven days a week
blind with all warnings
suppressed, derided, silenced
by those who willed destruction
for their crass benefit.
The year with eyes did not begin
with rose-colored spectacles
but it ended in eyes
blinded by blood.
Non-practicing atheist