Tuesday, March 8, 2022

Useless Despair

While a dictator's second-best bombs
blasted people in Kjiv, I
shopped for groceries
not far from a massive volcano
wrapped in snow like an ermine-coated
queen with a molten temper. 

Privileged beyond measure,
I gulped big  breaths of iced air,
indulged in despair, uselessly
fretted for fellow humans,
imperfect lovely people 
a half a planet away. 

How evil finds a way 
to fill little rage-addicted men
like pus until they burst
in a death riot, I can't say.

Why so many shocked children
and their parents have to die
before such a small box of rot
finally dies from his own mad
virus, I can't know. So:

I looked into a set gray sky
in some region named
the Pacific Northwest,
couldn't cry, took my sad 
bags into a store and pushed
a little wheeled cage around aisles. 


hans ostrom 2022


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