Sunday, July 2, 2017

day ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY FOUR

Headlines Become Deadlines

It has gotten bad, very bad
nothing and more of the same.
Nothing but, I won’t suffer
the writing will suffer
but, I won’t suffer.

3 a.m. pawing at my Smartphone screen
Trump loves Russia, Trump loves Russia.
Trump loves Putin and Trump hates healthcare
Trump loves the wall and Trump loves Russia
To Putin from Trump with love
Alright, I suffer, the writing suffers.
Nothing and we all suffer
nothing and more of the same
and the rich hardly know the poor at all
and the rich hardly know about pain
The headlines become deadlines
and nothing and more of the same.

--Matthew Sradeja

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