Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Elections of 2024
How sharply our children will be ashamed…
remembering how in so strange a time
common integrity could look like courage
-Yevtushenko,
“Talk”
1. Thesis (of a sort)
The nation shamble-shuffles erratically
Erratically to a lectern and microphone
A microphone on a Potemkin stage
While a bewildered audience feebly applauds
2. Antithesis (of a
sort)
The nation lemming-marches along the streets
Lemming-marches along with bullhorns and flags
Bullhorns bellowing in 5.56
The Gospel according to Saint QAnon
3. Recusancy instead
of synthesis
But I am an American, not a D, an R, a Q
My faith is in the Constitution, and maybe
In you
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