• Menu

    • Home
    • About Andy
    • Blog
    • Newsletter
    • Donate
    • Voter Information
    • Videos
    • Contact
  • Home
  • About Andy
  • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Donate
  • Voter Information
  • Videos
  • Contact
Don’t Let the Fascists Win
November 25, 2019

To write is to argue without evidence that beauty
pervades: the rainforest and the killing field,
sunsets and floods of acid rain on I-95.

Every morning I brush my teeth, wash my hair,
check my clothes in the mirror before work.
Is it vain or naïve to read poetry these days?

I’ve travelled millennia across lands of brute
illiteracy and great odds to arrive here, on a
couch in the suburbs of a fragile Democracy:

Isn’t it nice to rest a while, put our feet up, drink
of the marvels of a global economy?— My coffee
is from Perú, my coffeemaker made in China!

The TV blares, though I’m not watching; every
so often I hear a commercial for car insurance.
I forgot to turn off the upstairs-light; my empty bed

is bathed in unobserved miracles. Passing comets must
marvel that so much abundance can go to waste.
In 2019 America, it is naïve to be an idealist,

and yet we’ve built a union worth perfecting.
On Monday mornings, I cringe at myself in the mirror,
then hurry along I-95…

so much work to do today.

(Visited 69 times, 1 visits today)
AmericaDonald TrumpelectionelectionsfascismfreedomHitlerinequalitypoetrypoliticsprotestracismsocial changeTrumpUSA
Share

America on the Brink  / poetry  / Politics

You might also like

Free Time
February 26, 2023
My Poetry Manuscript Is Complete!
February 20, 2023
Ode to My Favorite Poetry Podcast, Now Featuring a Car Commercial
February 19, 2023

Leave A Reply


Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  • Search

  • Popular Posts

    • The Problem With the Proverb About Teaching a Man to Fish
    • Template Letters to Send the Board of Governors of the USPS
    • The Problem With DEI
    • The Dark Knight and Me: an Essay
    • Questions On Nike, Colin Kaepernick, and Corporate…
  • Recent Posts

    • Free Time
    • My Poetry Manuscript Is Complete!
    • Ode to My Favorite Poetry Podcast, Now Featuring a Car Commercial
    • We’ll Never Green the Economy Like This
    • A Pricing Conundrum
  • Blog Categories

    • America on the Brink
    • Be The Change
    • book review
    • brown
    • Business
    • Capital Good Fund
    • Certitude
    • Cycling
    • environment
    • featured
    • Huffington Post
    • micro credit
    • movie reviews
    • Musings
    • News
    • philosophy
    • poetry
    • Politics
    • Pragmatic Idealsim
    • Prose
    • Renewable Energy
    • Thesis
    • travel
    • TreeHugger Job
    • Uncategorized
  • Subscribe to Our Newsletter

    Check out my newsletter, Be The Change

    Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription.



  • Get In Touch

    Contact Andy
  • My Goal

    My goal is to foster an economy that alleviates poverty, provides meaningful, sustainable and just jobs, and protects and restores the environment.
  • Sign Up!


© Copyright Andy Posner | Site design by RI Web Gurus