block of wood
once told me
that his philosophy
was to let government know
as little about him as possible

this was particularly silly
since he had in fact
just recently retired
from a government job

I laughed at block of wood then
for obvious reasons
but now
the mad king is risen
and no one here
is laughing

dark times are ahead for sure
with the purging of heretics
giving the nod
to sycophants and swindlers
as more and more orcs
are made

all this laying groundwork
for mass internment
of scapegoats

and soon
the eye of sauron
will open

block of wood has no idea
and never will
how his kind
helped create this chaos
this insanity

but i am reminded
how much culpability
comes also
from my own tent

so here i sit
in dissonant dismay
and i pray

as did from rumi to edmond fitzgerald
to the gentle minds
like the followers of ram dass

that this too
shall pass

Peace/Love/Organize

m(-_-)m