To a Political Friend Who Politically Accused Me of Having My Head in the Sand Politically - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

 

To a Political Friend Who Politically Accused Me

 of Having My Head in the Sand Politically

 

 

Our lives no longer feel ground under them

 

-Mandelstam, “The Stalin Epigram”

 

 

I have no illusions

 

I have no solutions

 

I have Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump

 

          (And occasional basal cell carcinomas)

 

I can be silenced in fear

 

By their suicide sides

 

But I have a brain

 

          (“…an ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own.”)

 

And so to them

 

I am dangerous

 

If I am noticed at all