Wednesday, July 01, 2020

Dark Days Democracy

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES


Dark Days Democracy

The art of politics has yielded
to the dirty lowdown scourge
of mass disenfranchisement

The dark days of democracy
are knocking down the doors
Voting in the midst of a rapidly
spreading virus is hard enough
without closing down precincts
and denying vote by mail

Do they want the disease to spread?
Do they want us to die?
Have we arrived at a place
where our tolerance for others
is so low we would rather see
our opposition sick and dying
than to let their voices be heard? 

Dark days democracy
when a deadly disease becomes
a political lightning rod
When science and medicine
belong to one political party
When our president double dares
his political opponents
to risk their lives
by standing in endless lines
on election day

When did Republicans
abandon the republic?

Dark days democracy indeed

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