The Deep sleep

Dreams of people dying, I can’t help

Padlocked chain link kennels full of people

Mothers crying for children

Children crying for mothers

Everyone has gone deaf

Woman gathered up to chain on top of pedestals

Try desperately to be left the fuck alone

Revving motors on private yachts and jets

I helped buy and I can’t get a lift

Emasculated white boys play dress up in camo

Jack boots march to Richard Wagner tunes

Young people executed in the streets

Meanwhile, I wake to my morning routine

Drink coffee, make a smoothie

Write a poem, take a walk

Do crunches, lift weights

Put whitener on my teeth to improve my smile

And try to not go back to sleep

10-23-20