2016

the delusions of denial astonish me.
there are people actually bandying about memes
casting aspersions on something called "2016".

as if the lines on calendars aren't fabrications,
like all the other borders.

as if there's the faintest reason
to expect things to get better
- any day now.

as if seventy years haven't taught us
that we haven't a chance
until we all come together and take it on ourselves:

the Lakotas and Veterans Against the War and Black Lives Matter,
the workers in India and the children under the drones,
the millions in our prisons and the billions in their hunger,
fleeing misery and the rogue regime-changers' path;

for that's what it will take to
defeat the ruling psychopaths
and their zombie army
of corporate operatives the world over,
who prey on the future of life itself.