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Tirade #1

Linda D’Argenio

This is an ugly poem in both form and content
Please read it
You need to read it
You must read it!

The suicide of a Chinese migrant worker
Indian farmers who take their own life
The daily deaths by police on the American streets,
What do they all have in common?

Skies defaced by mysterious machines
That pretend to be passenger jets
While cavorting with the clouds
Plastic in mother’s milk
Nuclear waste in the Pacific
Fish with 3 eyes and frogs with 5 legs
Poisonous salmon
What do they all have in common?

CIA-sponsored terror
Pandemic’s numbers blown up through fallacious tests
People fleeing misery in the South
To be met by misery in the North
False flag operations to oil the war machine,
What do they all have in common?

Every day we are told:
We are too many,
There isn’t enough earth
Enough food
Enough sky
For all of us
While a fraction of the wealthiest man’s wealth
Would be enough to feed a small country.

Every day: we allow them to put us in boxes
Marked by color: black, white, yellow, red.
We are taught to distrust our emotions
To distrusts our nature,
Until someone flips,
Takes a gun,
And happily shoots people at the mall.

Every day: we are taught that we are not safe,
Never,
Nowhere,
Not even from ourselves.
That disease and violence lurk on every corner.
We’re taught that we have no power (but we have free will!)
We feel so miniscule
That we are compelled to expose every detail
Of our private lives online:
Look! It’s me! I am!

We entrust justice and censorship to the Internet
We insult and betray behind the safety of a screen
On that same screen where we prostitute our lives
For all to see
And don’t find anything wrong with it.

We are taught that there is nothing
Beyond our skull, flesh and bones
We are born in distrust and bred in suspicion
Then we turn around ask
“What’s wrong with the world?!”

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