SEND THE POETS
“poetry should again assume
responsibility for the description of history” – Ed Sanders
Poets must witness the trial
Of the criminal-in-chief
Let them sit in the Senate chamber
Let them listen
Let them observe as
Elephants and donkeys
Bellow and bray across
The insurmountable aisle
Refusing discourse
Avoiding evidence
Casting their predetermined
Pre-sworn fully biased votes
Into the thickening miasma of
Poisoned political process
Puffing and strutting
Playing to the cameras
To the corporate media
To the exhausted electorate
Who await the foregone conclusion
The predestined verdict
As though it could be
Considered news
Then let the poets report
What they have experienced
In real time blogging
As broadsides, chapbooks
Printed each day and distributed
On street corners while still hot
The truth not the news
Outrage not entertainment
Send in the poets if you dare
Let the poets speak!
--M.J. Arcangelini
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