Thursday, January 2, 2020

day ONE THOUSAND and SEVENTY EIGHT

Caligula at the Ballpark

lumbering man of lead
grotesquely spray painted gold
selling fascism in the stands
like hot dogs and America
spilling his poison
like ketchup
          or someone else's blood
consecrated with Syrian oil
        and fear
weakened by a kryptonite truth
        like a match to the back of a tick
pulls out pouting
while the enormous crowd
chants HIS Praises™
so all the world can hear
in a spontaneous expression
       of patriotism

--Mark A. Fisher



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