Take these unresolved fragments:
I’m writing –
but who’s reading? Singing, but who’s listening? And will it be
remembered?
Have you seen the
news today? Have you heard the reports of an estimated 200,000 women,
pregnant with Iranian infants, children – bayoneted, suffering
tormented, demented attacks, buried alive with gouged out eyes?
Stripped and kidnapped of political power. Deplorable American
worship. Naming it thus was always justified.
Is it vanity to
want to be remembered? To make a mark? To leave a legacy?
Is
it vanity to want to be recognized? To matter?
An uncontrolled psychosis far from normality – still too close to the
moon. Beneath the shadow of this failed republic. The violent
fragments of American cities explode and fling themselves into the
fire.
In a hundred years
who will remember my name?
In fifty – who will care?
Have you seen the
news? Autospeak machines that speak of wars and secret empires. Speak
of a superior race and the toxic price of infrastructure.
I
am lost in the smoke and haze. I am swallowed up and lost in the
chaos of our times. Swallowed up and devoured along with the great
mass of women, children, and men. All consumed. All
forgotten.
Trumpet radio announcement vile screeds.
Shackling perversity to God’s own firepower Repudiate his racism or
stand with him condemned. Stick out your chest and raise your chin.
We see you. We know.
Still – I am
writing.
Still – I am singing.


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