pending

append a footnote to your journal:

yesterday saw infamy.

our vigilance was too diurnal,

attitude too fancy-free.

.

an interregnum looms. smooth sailing

can’t be done in choppy waters.

gallows built and vlad impaling…

pray for sisters, mothers, daughters.

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Afterword: Donald Trump has just been elected President of the United States. The above poem alludes to some of the consequences I fear.