RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS
The Long Hard Winter
It’s a long hard winter in Ethiopia where
famine spreads like a deadly disease
Where the war for control of a dying land
seems it will never end
Where a life is valued at less than a single
digit in the local currency
Where the oil cartels and the mineral cartels
and the precious metals cartels employ
natives at semi-slave wages while feeding
the militias with weapons of war
It’s a long hard winter in Alabama and Louisiana
where storms and hurricanes line up to batter
the poor like ghosts of hurricanes past
It’s a long hard winter on the east coast
of America from Maine down to Virginia
where the freeze knocks out power and
the chill enters the marrow of bones
It’s a long hard winter in the Midwest
from Minnesota to Tennessee where the
frost nips at your toes and numbs your
fingertips
It’s a long hard winter most everywhere
On every continent and every sea
But it’s harder and longer in Ukraine
where it’s raining missiles from Moscow
most everywhere you see
