Color has gone
wholly out of fashion,
white-washed with trowels
of mortar, constructing obeisance
to an ignoble aesthetic that rejects
moral character as irrelevant
Abducted, caged and wrapped in cellophane, nothing more
than last night’s discarded take-out.
America is a nation of laws, and
its laws must be upheld, until it
isn’t and it’s inconvenient
(or fake news)
The separation of humanity from theology,
nibbled and carried off in hyperbolic
ruthlessness and aggression.
Oceans of victimization,
distributed like so many cesspools
inspiring lunatics and tainting that which is hallowed, a
conspiratorial and Manichean view of scripture and text,
accepting the superiority of the jester’s instincts
ignoring abstract and universal reason
Of course, I did not say that!
The overwhelming evidence is inadmissible
By executive decree. (see above)
Subtle fires run
under my skin, striving
towards a perfection in lyric
but my tongue is broken
signaling the violence polemic language does
to the body
The mind, once enlightened
can become dark
Ric Walden Poetry 