Victor Lozano photo
By
Daniel Casey
Trumps Hate
But it doesn’t, it hasn’t,
and love doesn’t overcome,
rather it underwhelms.
So when every speech is
now hate speech, every smile
a wicked, shit-eating grin,
and every body held
in contempt, I know you
don’t love me any more
than you did yesterday
than you ever will, you won’t.
Should I wash my hands of you,
then I would stand with you
unneutral, a downcast shade.
The Left Behind
Because everyone I know
is now female, foreign, queer,
black, brown, and terrified
of men so pale their ghastly
recreant hearts bleed bile,
I can’t see what you fear, why
you cower, lie, scrounge filthy
pennies unrepentantly screaming
above the thin blue line your
illiberal need to breathe
at the cost of all of our breath.
Daniel Casey
Daniel Casey is an independent author of the Ascendant Realms non-magic fantasy series, an English professor, book reviewer, and pop culture writer. He has a MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame and currently teaches as an adjunct English instructor at Murray State University.
No Comments Yet!
You can be first to comment this post!